What's your strategy for fighting against restrictive software patents?" Well I suppose the first would be not going to slashdot for legal advice, but then IANAL.
Now, the robots have kill switches, so "now we can kill the unit if it goes crazy," according to the Army. I feel safer already." As an engineer that designs industrial equipment, all of which involves paying incredible detail to the small things in order to protect the user from injury or loss of life, I am very amazed to hear that the US Army would use control protocols and algorithms that are so flaky that the robots are described as "going crazy" when they misbehave. Especially when they are carrying weapons!
And the only results they have is a simple kill/estop switch, which (and I am guessing) whose command code is probably transmitted along the same comm pathway as the other command codes.
Twenty-four federal departments and agencies earned a collective grade of C-minus last year for their performance in meeting computer and network security requirements.
and even that was due to the 'no child left behind' educational policies of GWB.
Although I think that this is a great idea with alot of good potential however I cannot
seriously see this coming into fruition due to the IP, testing and marketing that has to be done.
I do hope that something good comes out of it. But it is that you hear about little break throughs
like these all of the time and nothing seems to come from them due to the massive hurdles that keep coming up.
If you had read the article you would assume that the exploits mentioned were for the actual operating system (and indeed there were some OS exploits were). However many of the bugs were to do with end user system software that wasn't developed by microsoft or by the Unix kernel maintainers/developers. So blaming, say, microsoft or linus for third party software is quite deceptive.
As a New Zealander I am surprised that the government is showing this much common sense:
"Mr Cunliffe says Microsoft's proposed "opt out" approach is too weak and has been rejected. "We decided it's going to be opt-in. End of story. Why should you have to opt out of spam?"
And that common sense is prevailing over US law. *duck*
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The first memory that I had was trying to login as the administrator.
Nobody told me that the root account login name was root.
I went back to Windows 95 after that.
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Simon
20MB of OOXML contain about 122,000 errors: Muhhaaaah!!!
therefore 50 mega bytes of OOXML contain approximately 250,000 errors: ... Muhhaaaahahhha!!!
continuing: 100 mega bytes of OOXML contain approximately 500,000 errors: ... Muhhaaaahahhhaahhhaaahahaaaaaaaha!!!
therefore, 200 mega bytes of OOXML contain approximately 1,000,000 errors: ... Muhhaaaahahhhaahhhaaahahahhhhhhaaaaahahahahahaahaahahaaaaha!!!
So no, I don't really think that the reasoning is sound.
is it?
And the only results they have is a simple kill/estop switch, which (and I am guessing) whose command code is probably transmitted along the same comm pathway as the other command codes.
Wow
Simon H
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Simon H
[1]: Be here all weekend.
Okay...
Will the death never end?
Sad, very sad.
... when you have slashdot?
I do hope that something good comes out of it. But it is that you hear about little break throughs like these all of the time and nothing seems to come from them due to the massive hurdles that keep coming up.
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Simon Harvey
Thursday, 26th January
Slashdot User #20035
Dear HunterZ:
Your letter has been forwarded to our psychology department for future inclusion
of our research programme.
Kind Regards
Simon Harvey
If you had read the article you would assume that the exploits mentioned were for the actual operating system (and indeed there were some OS exploits were). However many of the bugs were to do with end user system software that wasn't developed by microsoft or by the Unix kernel maintainers/developers.
So blaming, say, microsoft or linus for third party software is quite deceptive.
Hasnt this already been posted to slashdot already?
http://www.taivaansusi.net/historia/mithraism.html
Well, we do know the truth (here is a page that includes real sources):
http://www.tektonics.org/copycat/mithra.html
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Simon Harvey
That maybe true but every winter when they are getting low there is always the talk of considering them for power generation for the coming winters.
Now 'ol george is gonna commit to a war against the wheather
...sandwiches which will still be edible after seven years...
This is nothing, McDonalds have been doing this with their burgers for ages
Sounds just large enough to power my Peltier cooled, integrated beer cooler
As a New Zealander I am surprised that the government is showing this much common sense:
"Mr Cunliffe says Microsoft's proposed "opt out" approach is too weak and has been rejected.
"We decided it's going to be opt-in. End of story. Why should you have to opt out of spam?"
And that common sense is prevailing over US law.
*duck*
Simon
For thoes people who are interested in building their own, here is a primer
Good Luck
Apart from that I really hope that your patent run on mundane programming language syntax + keywords goes well.
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Simon Harvey
40MHz is fast enough, but 1GHz?
You have my respect
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Simon Harvey
move on, nothing to see here