Oh, I see, you are saying that buying pennies and melting them down and selling the scrap at a profit at taxpayer expense isn't 'fraudulent intent'?
I disagree, I stipulate this scenario is already covered under the existing law, making a profit off selling currency as scrap is deffinately fraudulent.
The only email that might be worth reading en route is one that has a substantial relationship to a literal issue of imminent life-or-death. But its not worth checking to see if an email might be in that category en route, unless you are nearly certain that you wouldn't get any other email coming in at the time. Ah that is exactly why we need an 'substantial relationship to a literal issue of imminent life-or-death' filter, like a spam filter except...
So he's comparing the 'size' of an object by energy and you pop in with a remark that he should be comparing object 'size' by mass, so you propose changing the units by dividing by the constant c^2?
Instead of majority rules, we could each hire a representative (or serve as our own if we so chose) so that if we thought our representatvie was corrupt we could just fire them. This would end the two party monopoly on representative government and hopefully people could still manage to elect only a couple thousand unique representatives (with weighted votes depending on how many people they represented.)
This is a systemic problem with all these closed console systems with storage. Storage needs backup. Imagine what it will be like in 4 years when these systems start failing in mass and people realize they lost all their save games. Nintendo is on the good side since its storage isn't HDD based and you can rely on SD cards which are easilly backupable. I suppose the PS3 has Linux backup options but only a small percentage will be able to use it. Xbox360 has the advantage that the HDD is easilly replaceable but I'm not sure how easy it is to back up the data.
That is why open systems are essential for storage. But hey I guess people are weened on DVD and its ilk so they expect to be unable to back up their data.
I agree we should make best efforts to prevent the need for drastic measures to read the data but that isn't sufficient to avoid preparing for drastic measures. You need to be prepared for doing things the hard way, because we can't predict how hard it will be in the future we can't assume whatever precautions we have taken will be sufficient. That is why I am really proposing the 'worst case' scenario.
Keeping 'a copy of every program' is tractable, 'and a system to run them on' however is not. Data (programs) can be easilly copied to new media and thus live forever (as long as people are around to order new media, install it and copy the data anyways but thats just a staffing problem). But hardware is not so easilly ported, that is unless you have an open, easy to port, emulator that will run your programs. Preferably this emulator should require very little say just a functional C compiler for future hardware. So there you have used a common CS solution, you have REDUCED the problem of saving all your data to the problem of maintaining hardware for which you have a functional C compiler, a much easier task. If you can't find such a machine your solution would then be to implement a C compiler, again a tractable problem.
I have simplified for the sake of being lazy but the essence of portable emulators + extensive software and data backup and storage is sound, you don't even have to concern yourself with speed if you are willing to accept that future hardware will be fast enough.
If I do this format shifting copy myself its 'fair use' but if I think its a pain and would rather pay a service to go through the effort for me then it isn't fair use anymore and is a clear copyright violation?
No, I think that is complete BS. It doesn't make any sense. Maybe they can force seperating the buying of the product and the shifting of the format but if we allow an individual to do $x, we should definately allow them to pay someone else to do $x for them.
> If I write a scientific article, I don't believe I am liable for citing work which later turns out to be plagiarized. Why should it be any different with code?
Because if Novell submits infringing code, and others start building off it, modifying it that effort is potentially wasted. Its not about being liable for citing plagarized work, its much more akin to basing your research program off results that are fraudulent. You run the risk of spending millions of dollars chasing down some 'cold fusion' type idea because the publishers of the journal failed to prevent bad knowledge being integrated into the body of scientific knowledge. That is why the decision to include code into Linux needs more control than it has, and that is a great liability that I'm not sure the community can afford.
> It's certainly working for me. I'm currently addicted to FFXII (although I already have a 360 so it doesn't matter in that respect).
Ha ha, wait until you want to play FFXIII and its only available on PS3. I own a 360 and have a pre-order for a Wii but I don't fool myself. By the time FFXIII is released I will have upgraded my PS2 to a PS3.
Hopefully this will trigger an analyst to watch the video to make a decision on how to proceed (video that would otherwise be filtered out of the system) rather than automatically trigger some sort of real-world action. Thus once the cameras are up and people are watching this system can only help privacy (the existance of the cameras and watchers in the first place is a different battle.)
So you could use say 5 500kW generators and as long as only one of them failed you would be fine. I bet you could get 5 or 6 500kW generators much cheaper (faster) than one of these high capacity ones on short supply. You could even use cheaper components with a shorter MTBF since the redundancy of the system can mask failures. I bet you could even reconfigure a data center for higher capacity simply by adding more of these inexpensive generators...
Of course the real money is in RAIG controller units and hot swapable bays...
Really what do you expect? When you post a direct link to your website like that machines can easilly harvest it and add it to their zombie spambot lists... Really you should type it out like this so only a human can parse it...
At the end of the article they mention David Chaum's method of voter verifiable elections. I first saw this several years ago in graduate school (I believe I was reviewing an earlier version of the paper for a conference). It is a gloriously beautiful protocol, far beyond what I ever hope to see implemented in my lifetime.:( I suggest you take a look, I will look at the version referenced in the article again tonight as the exposition is considerably clearer than the version of the work I read (dumbed down a bit for a mass audience).
Cutting 96% of the 4% standby power is relatively easy to do, much easier than cutting 4% of the other 96%, so guess what??? Its cheaper and more effective to pick the low hanging fruit.
Good point, for example if a user is participating in sharing an iso for a linux distribution via bit-torrent but is not doing the same for the source they are in violation because they are distribuiting GPLed code. I am certain many people have un-knowingly disobeyed the GPL by doing just this, afterall there is much smaller demand for the source and the user can get it elsewhere so why not just share this ISO I just downloaded.
In systems where sharing is forced just downloading the binary is an infraction since you will then share the binary and not the source.
In this case it isn't HTML that is the problem it is the automated referencing of external data (images) via HTML, my mail program kindly asks before downloading these images, a really nice sender would attach the images so I know they aren't tracking me.
You know where servers are REALLY needed, close to the high speed Internet backbone in well controlled stable secure environments, not wirelessly roaming about the countryside. Hence datacenters.
I am worried about the possibility of mallicious actions, I could care less if a few machines lock up and people have to wait a bit to vote. And I don't believe the machines will spontaneously make accidental mistakes that lose people's votes. I worry only about humans, whether they be programmers or elections officials purposefully rigging the system.
Thus I don't care if her machine locks up or not. Stupid question that shouldn't have been asked as it sidetracks the issue.
The ISPs already have a structural advantage in that it is far easier to push high speeds from their servers to my home than from a random spot in the Internet (less hops, they contol all of them) so I don't believe that requiring them to play fair would completely remove their advantage in providing content to me, but if despite this advantage I request data from some other service, I expect my ISP to not throttle that connection. There are bottlenecks enough in the net without artificially constricting flows to give your own services an advantage.
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Collapse would make a great iPhone app, until you break the screen of course...
Oh, I see, you are saying that buying pennies and melting them down and selling the scrap at a profit at taxpayer expense isn't 'fraudulent intent'?
I disagree, I stipulate this scenario is already covered under the existing law, making a profit off selling currency as scrap is deffinately fraudulent.
Oh, nevermind.
So he's comparing the 'size' of an object by energy and you pop in with a remark that he should be comparing object 'size' by mass, so you propose changing the units by dividing by the constant c^2?
Einstein would be so proud.
Not really, in nature (-30+i)nm cores always appear along side (-30-i)nm cores in what we call conjugate pair processors.
No, there's to much, let me sum up...
Life's not fair.
Instead of majority rules, we could each hire a representative (or serve as our own if we so chose) so that if we thought our representatvie was corrupt we could just fire them. This would end the two party monopoly on representative government and hopefully people could still manage to elect only a couple thousand unique representatives (with weighted votes depending on how many people they represented.)
This is a systemic problem with all these closed console systems with storage. Storage needs backup. Imagine what it will be like in 4 years when these systems start failing in mass and people realize they lost all their save games. Nintendo is on the good side since its storage isn't HDD based and you can rely on SD cards which are easilly backupable. I suppose the PS3 has Linux backup options but only a small percentage will be able to use it. Xbox360 has the advantage that the HDD is easilly replaceable but I'm not sure how easy it is to back up the data.
That is why open systems are essential for storage. But hey I guess people are weened on DVD and its ilk so they expect to be unable to back up their data.
I agree we should make best efforts to prevent the need for drastic measures to read the data but that isn't sufficient to avoid preparing for drastic measures. You need to be prepared for doing things the hard way, because we can't predict how hard it will be in the future we can't assume whatever precautions we have taken will be sufficient. That is why I am really proposing the 'worst case' scenario.
Keeping 'a copy of every program' is tractable, 'and a system to run them on' however is not. Data (programs) can be easilly copied to new media and thus live forever (as long as people are around to order new media, install it and copy the data anyways but thats just a staffing problem). But hardware is not so easilly ported, that is unless you have an open, easy to port, emulator that will run your programs. Preferably this emulator should require very little say just a functional C compiler for future hardware. So there you have used a common CS solution, you have REDUCED the problem of saving all your data to the problem of maintaining hardware for which you have a functional C compiler, a much easier task. If you can't find such a machine your solution would then be to implement a C compiler, again a tractable problem.
I have simplified for the sake of being lazy but the essence of portable emulators + extensive software and data backup and storage is sound, you don't even have to concern yourself with speed if you are willing to accept that future hardware will be fast enough.
If I do this format shifting copy myself its 'fair use' but if I think its a pain and would rather pay a service to go through the effort for me then it isn't fair use anymore and is a clear copyright violation?
No, I think that is complete BS. It doesn't make any sense. Maybe they can force seperating the buying of the product and the shifting of the format but if we allow an individual to do $x, we should definately allow them to pay someone else to do $x for them.
> If I write a scientific article, I don't believe I am liable for citing work which later turns out to be plagiarized. Why should it be any different with code?
Because if Novell submits infringing code, and others start building off it, modifying it that effort is potentially wasted. Its not about being liable for citing plagarized work, its much more akin to basing your research program off results that are fraudulent. You run the risk of spending millions of dollars chasing down some 'cold fusion' type idea because the publishers of the journal failed to prevent bad knowledge being integrated into the body of scientific knowledge. That is why the decision to include code into Linux needs more control than it has, and that is a great liability that I'm not sure the community can afford.
> It's certainly working for me. I'm currently addicted to FFXII (although I already have a 360 so it doesn't matter in that respect).
Ha ha, wait until you want to play FFXIII and its only available on PS3. I own a 360 and have a pre-order for a Wii but I don't fool myself. By the time FFXIII is released I will have upgraded my PS2 to a PS3.
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I know of no reason
Why this Windows version should ever be bought
Hopefully this will trigger an analyst to watch the video to make a decision on how to proceed (video that would otherwise be filtered out of the system) rather than automatically trigger some sort of real-world action. Thus once the cameras are up and people are watching this system can only help privacy (the existance of the cameras and watchers in the first place is a different battle.)
The presentation of this is pure FUD.
So you could use say 5 500kW generators and as long as only one of them failed you would be fine. I bet you could get 5 or 6 500kW generators much cheaper (faster) than one of these high capacity ones on short supply. You could even use cheaper components with a shorter MTBF since the redundancy of the system can mask failures. I bet you could even reconfigure a data center for higher capacity simply by adding more of these inexpensive generators...
Of course the real money is in RAIG controller units and hot swapable bays...
> For example, the most common isotope of hydrogen isn't radioactive at all, and your body contains a heck of a lot of the stuff.
The half-life of a hydrogen nucleus (proton) may very well be on the order of 10^35 years.
Really what do you expect? When you post a direct link to your website like that machines can easilly harvest it and add it to their zombie spambot lists... Really you should type it out like this so only a human can parse it...
:)
crazyguyonabike dot com
Gotta stay one step ahead of the spammers.
At the end of the article they mention David Chaum's method of voter verifiable elections. I first saw this several years ago in graduate school (I believe I was reviewing an earlier version of the paper for a conference). It is a gloriously beautiful protocol, far beyond what I ever hope to see implemented in my lifetime. :( I suggest you take a look, I will look at the version referenced in the article again tonight as the exposition is considerably clearer than the version of the work I read (dumbed down a bit for a mass audience).
Cutting 96% of the 4% standby power is relatively easy to do, much easier than cutting 4% of the other 96%, so guess what??? Its cheaper and more effective to pick the low hanging fruit.
Good point, for example if a user is participating in sharing an iso for a linux distribution via bit-torrent but is not doing the same for the source they are in violation because they are distribuiting GPLed code. I am certain many people have un-knowingly disobeyed the GPL by doing just this, afterall there is much smaller demand for the source and the user can get it elsewhere so why not just share this ISO I just downloaded.
In systems where sharing is forced just downloading the binary is an infraction since you will then share the binary and not the source.
In this case it isn't HTML that is the problem it is the automated referencing of external data (images) via HTML, my mail program kindly asks before downloading these images, a really nice sender would attach the images so I know they aren't tracking me.
You know where servers are REALLY needed, close to the high speed Internet backbone in well controlled stable secure environments, not wirelessly roaming about the countryside. Hence datacenters.
I am worried about the possibility of mallicious actions, I could care less if a few machines lock up and people have to wait a bit to vote. And I don't believe the machines will spontaneously make accidental mistakes that lose people's votes. I worry only about humans, whether they be programmers or elections officials purposefully rigging the system.
Thus I don't care if her machine locks up or not. Stupid question that shouldn't have been asked as it sidetracks the issue.
The ISPs already have a structural advantage in that it is far easier to push high speeds from their servers to my home than from a random spot in the Internet (less hops, they contol all of them) so I don't believe that requiring them to play fair would completely remove their advantage in providing content to me, but if despite this advantage I request data from some other service, I expect my ISP to not throttle that connection. There are bottlenecks enough in the net without artificially constricting flows to give your own services an advantage.