I don't think the idea of block chain is inherently slow. Design choices that BTC have made and stuck to have kept it so.
I had a very little bit of bit coin, and trying to spend it was not easy.
You are also right that BTC is no longer being marketed as a currency, but as an investment. The currency side of things has been sidelined and forgotten.
OK I will start out by saying that I don't think that this should be controlled by M$, but I don't think that tying DRM to email is a bad idea. Hell I think it is one of the only good uses of DRM.
Spam is a huge problem and the only way it is going to be effectively controlled is to change the open nature of email. Putting controls onto who can do what to the email is the next step. You don't always want emails to be forwarded especially if the email is signed from you. The same goes for company internal emails it is fine them being sent internally but most often they are not for third party use.
OK you are not going to stop people cutting and pasting then forwarding but at least it will not be verified as being from you. Just wish that some open consortium had come up with standards for this sort of thing before M$ got their mitts on it.
perhaps most importantly, the idea of HTML dynamically produced on the server side
CGI generated HTML has been around for ages, they couldn't try that.
I only had a quick read but it seemed to be the idea of dynamicaly generating content based on the content of the cookie.
I don't think this is patenting cookies it looks (from a brief scan of the doc) to be patenting a web page that changes its content solely on the basis of the cookie i.e. same URL and no form variables. It is basically a 'remember me' patent, though it could also apply to sessions based on cookies.
Seems like an obvious solution to me, but then I am a web developer not a patent clerk.
You sure your not a troll?
Software patents tend to be vauge and very general. They tend worded to give little benifit to the public domailn. Yet alow the holders to claim other peoples work infringe even if they have never heard of the patent. This is a complete abuse of the patent system as it holds up or even discourages inovation.
The EU patents are trying to be better by strictly defining what can and can't be patented, time will tell wether it works or not.
I am sure others will be able to give you more verbose explanations but that is it in a nutshell
Oh right.
I think I see, spin polarized currents rather than magnetic allignment?
Thanks for correcting me, I tend to get confused when things get that small.
I may be being a bit of a luddite over this but predictive text works well once you get used to it. If Symbian/Nokia/Whovever could just get it sorted so it remembered what words you used the most it would be even better.
This just seems really fiddly and you will have to spend the first couple of months working out where all the keys are. It may be OK for some people but can't see myself using it.
It is better. I 'mailed my MEPs after reading a story on/. a while ago. Got a pretty good response*. It is nice to see that some of my concerns have been addressed. If enough people write to them they will take notice.
I mean if you are not going to be able to stop the drive for software patents it is better to have some sensible legislation for it.
The changes here seem to be good for the most part. The emphasis on new technical solutions to problems rather than any old algorithm or method could work well. At the end of the day it will depend on how well new patents are policed.
* Except from the Tory who's lackey mailed me a few times asking for my address so that I could be sent a letter, my saying that email was better didn't seem to work. Eventually gave in and got some pro business pro patent response.
OK this may be a little controversial but I think that in the future a 'bandwidth tax' or some such thing may not be a bad idea. We supposedly moving into an age of the information economy. Some people through the Internet have more access to information than others, this information makes their life better. They can look for better jobs, be better informed on what is going on in the world and make more productive decisions accordingly. This situation will get worse as more and more services move exclusively online. The info poor will have fewer opportunities.
If you see tax as a way of re distributing wealth to help the less well off then you could conceivably charge a bandwidth tax and put the money into public net access. I know not everyone sees tax this way but it dosn't seem like that bad an idea to me It could also be used to help fund Internet monitoring, which I know no one likes but the government is going to do it anyway so why shouldn't people who use more bandwidth pay a greater share of the cost?
As soon as a patch comes out, bug your ISP to sort out their DNS servers. Try and nip this thing in the bud
Interesting that BIND only runs 80% of DNS servers, what is the other 20% made up of?
Very intresting idea.
Would love to see pictures or vid of it flying but no links.
Not sure if the general public would like this as a form of mass transit but if they could scale it up so that you could carry one person it could be a very cool way to get around. Much better than a segway.
.., and there is a control path to the object's implementation to support user interaction with the object..
Kind of makes it distinct to plugins, even though if you had the rendering for, say, a gif image in a DLL it may also be using the patent idea.
There is also
..where at least some of the object's data is located external to the document..
So if you had a mime encoded document with all parts encoded within the document weather they neaded a plugin or not it would not be covered
This is a really bad thing. Basicaly it looks like you shouln't be able to even put a java widget in a web page.
Now that they have been payed off my M$ I wonder if one of there team of [mony grabbing pigf$$king evil] lawyers will decide to go after web site authors??
Slashdot comments represent the views of 1000s of people, they are not going to be consistent.
Slashdot only reports other people's news so anything you read will have the bias of the original source of the story. It is 'News for nerds, stuff that matters' that is why people come here. I don't think the sun would really benefit from being called 'fascist bigot daily' (joke OK)
There master's voice is that of NewsCorp, all newscorp papers represent the same line to a greater or lesser degree.
This is the same sun that thinks that Blunkets' fascist ID cards are a great idea.
In sun think:
ID cards good: keep foreign scum out of the country
Car IDs bad: stop you driving properly and spy on what you do
They have their audience and respond to how they think. They have no consistent viewpoint on civil liberties, they just lisen to their masters voice.
So SCO is perfectly entitled to make threats of legal action against people if they don't pay them money with no evidence but as soon as an OSS person makes a slightly veiled threat it is blackmail?????
We have no reason to think that this represents a threat of illegal action. He is just not showing your cards to try and get a response without anything concrete, like, oh let me think now, SCO.
I don't think there is anything in the letter that is illegal (IANAL), it is threatinging but cairfully worded. It is yet another call for SCO to play fair. It is strongly worded to try and get their attention. But then if you are on crack the only think that gets your attention is more crack.
Those who have chosen to ignore the license are more in a situation of potential willful infringement
Surely, surely there should be some burden of proof before you start spouting off about wilful infringement.
There argument is basically licence this or we will sue you. How is this different from extortion.
On the plus side the announcements are getting more and more extreme and are having almost no effect on the stock price now. Hopefully even the most desperate of the market hyenas have realised that this stock is a gamble at best.
So this would make it not a free licence to use on 64 bit CPUs which is where they are claiming that the offending source comes from.
If this is the case it would probably mean that all of this Caldera code would be disallowed on 64 bit architecture, I hate to think that they have a point but....
Please someone tell me I am missing something obvious.
if SCO is willing to take the honest, cooperative path forward, so are we.
This is the point of the whole press release. From here on in, the OSS community can point out that they are willing to work with SCO to remove the offending code. Refusing to do this will make SCOs 'licence fees' much more like extortion.
This move could be very important later on.
Thanks that was almost what I wanted to say.
one other big factor that dosn't seem to have been mentioned yet is that ice is very good at reflecting light and water is not so good. If the planet is covered in ice it gets very cold if the ice melts it takes less energy to heat it up.
Take a look at the snowball earth theory.
Just a bit curious, I live in the UK and know someone who may be able to make good use of one of these.
But the whole site has a little note saying it is for USA people only, and there dosn't seem to be an international site. It seems strange that they are not interested in the rest of the world.
Anyone know why this is?
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I don't think the idea of block chain is inherently slow. Design choices that BTC have made and stuck to have kept it so. I had a very little bit of bit coin, and trying to spend it was not easy. You are also right that BTC is no longer being marketed as a currency, but as an investment. The currency side of things has been sidelined and forgotten.
I wouldn't know. Stopped using hotmail as soon as they started trying and hotmail stopped working.
OK I will start out by saying that I don't think that this should be controlled by M$, but I don't think that tying DRM to email is a bad idea. Hell I think it is one of the only good uses of DRM.
Spam is a huge problem and the only way it is going to be effectively controlled is to change the open nature of email. Putting controls onto who can do what to the email is the next step. You don't always want emails to be forwarded especially if the email is signed from you. The same goes for company internal emails it is fine them being sent internally but most often they are not for third party use.
OK you are not going to stop people cutting and pasting then forwarding but at least it will not be verified as being from you. Just wish that some open consortium had come up with standards for this sort of thing before M$ got their mitts on it.
I don't think this is patenting cookies it looks (from a brief scan of the doc) to be patenting a web page that changes its content solely on the basis of the cookie i.e. same URL and no form variables. It is basically a 'remember me' patent, though it could also apply to sessions based on cookies.
Seems like an obvious solution to me, but then I am a web developer not a patent clerk.
You sure your not a troll?
Software patents tend to be vauge and very general. They tend worded to give little benifit to the public domailn. Yet alow the holders to claim other peoples work infringe even if they have never heard of the patent. This is a complete abuse of the patent system as it holds up or even discourages inovation.
The EU patents are trying to be better by strictly defining what can and can't be patented, time will tell wether it works or not.
I am sure others will be able to give you more verbose explanations but that is it in a nutshell
Oh right.
I think I see, spin polarized currents rather than magnetic allignment?
Thanks for correcting me, I tend to get confused when things get that small.
Core Memory was around a long time ago. It provided non-volatile memory for a computer.
Isn't this just a molecular version of this idea?
I may be being a bit of a luddite over this but predictive text works well once you get used to it. If Symbian/Nokia/Whovever could just get it sorted so it remembered what words you used the most it would be even better.
This just seems really fiddly and you will have to spend the first couple of months working out where all the keys are. It may be OK for some people but can't see myself using it.
It is better. I 'mailed my MEPs after reading a story on /. a while ago. Got a pretty good response*. It is nice to see that some of my concerns have been addressed. If enough people write to them they will take notice.
I mean if you are not going to be able to stop the drive for software patents it is better to have some sensible legislation for it.
The changes here seem to be good for the most part. The emphasis on new technical solutions to problems rather than any old algorithm or method could work well. At the end of the day it will depend on how well new patents are policed.
* Except from the Tory who's lackey mailed me a few times asking for my address so that I could be sent a letter, my saying that email was better didn't seem to work. Eventually gave in and got some pro business pro patent response.
OK this may be a little controversial but I think that in the future a 'bandwidth tax' or some such thing may not be a bad idea. We supposedly moving into an age of the information economy. Some people through the Internet have more access to information than others, this information makes their life better. They can look for better jobs, be better informed on what is going on in the world and make more productive decisions accordingly. This situation will get worse as more and more services move exclusively online. The info poor will have fewer opportunities.
If you see tax as a way of re distributing wealth to help the less well off then you could conceivably charge a bandwidth tax and put the money into public net access. I know not everyone sees tax this way but it dosn't seem like that bad an idea to me
It could also be used to help fund Internet monitoring, which I know no one likes but the government is going to do it anyway so why shouldn't people who use more bandwidth pay a greater share of the cost?
As soon as a patch comes out, bug your ISP to sort out their DNS servers. Try and nip this thing in the bud
Interesting that BIND only runs 80% of DNS servers, what is the other 20% made up of?
Very intresting idea.
Would love to see pictures or vid of it flying but no links.
Not sure if the general public would like this as a form of mass transit but if they could scale it up so that you could carry one person it could be a very cool way to get around. Much better than a segway.
There is also So if you had a mime encoded document with all parts encoded within the document weather they neaded a plugin or not it would not be covered
This is a really bad thing. Basicaly it looks like you shouln't be able to even put a java widget in a web page.
Now that they have been payed off my M$ I wonder if one of there team of [mony grabbing pigf$$king evil] lawyers will decide to go after web site authors??
All IMHO IANAL ETC
Slashdot comments represent the views of 1000s of people, they are not going to be consistent.
Slashdot only reports other people's news so anything you read will have the bias of the original source of the story. It is 'News for nerds, stuff that matters' that is why people come here.
I don't think the sun would really benefit from being called 'fascist bigot daily' (joke OK)
There master's voice is that of NewsCorp, all newscorp papers represent the same line to a greater or lesser degree.
This is the same sun that thinks that Blunkets' fascist ID cards are a great idea.
In sun think:
ID cards good: keep foreign scum out of the country
Car IDs bad: stop you driving properly and spy on what you do
They have their audience and respond to how they think. They have no consistent viewpoint on civil liberties, they just lisen to their masters voice.
So SCO is perfectly entitled to make threats of legal action against people if they don't pay them money with no evidence but as soon as an OSS person makes a slightly veiled threat it is blackmail?????
We have no reason to think that this represents a threat of illegal action. He is just not showing your cards to try and get a response without anything concrete, like, oh let me think now, SCO.
I don't think there is anything in the letter that is illegal (IANAL), it is threatinging but cairfully worded. It is yet another call for SCO to play fair. It is strongly worded to try and get their attention. But then if you are on crack the only think that gets your attention is more crack.
There argument is basically licence this or we will sue you. How is this different from extortion.
On the plus side the announcements are getting more and more extreme and are having almost no effect on the stock price now. Hopefully even the most desperate of the market hyenas have realised that this stock is a gamble at best.
So this would make it not a free licence to use on 64 bit CPUs which is where they are claiming that the offending source comes from.
If this is the case it would probably mean that all of this Caldera code would be disallowed on 64 bit architecture, I hate to think that they have a point but....
Please someone tell me I am missing something obvious.
This is the point of the whole press release. From here on in, the OSS community can point out that they are willing to work with SCO to remove the offending code. Refusing to do this will make SCOs 'licence fees' much more like extortion.
This move could be very important later on.
Then why hasn't Microsoft changed the typo on this page
:)
Even the press releases have bugs in now
Thanks that was almost what I wanted to say.
one other big factor that dosn't seem to have been mentioned yet is that ice is very good at reflecting light and water is not so good. If the planet is covered in ice it gets very cold if the ice melts it takes less energy to heat it up. Take a look at the snowball earth theory.
Just a bit curious, I live in the UK and know someone who may be able to make good use of one of these.
But the whole site has a little note saying it is for USA people only, and there dosn't seem to be an international site. It seems strange that they are not interested in the rest of the world.
Anyone know why this is?