Exactly. And thus the degree of freedom for the community as a whole has been decreased by the act of limiting the freedom to limit freedom.
Right, well *obviously* we need a new licensing scheme which will limit the freedom to limit the limits on limiting freedom. Duh.
Much like Ronald Reagans Starwars-programme engineering advisors who, when asked what the US would do if the Russians build anti-anti-missile missiles responded "Then we'll build anti-anti-anti-missile-missile missiles".
Honestly, its a no-brainer for anyone who has read Lewis Carroll..
Wow you put a lot of time and effort into your reply, thats admirable.
One problem; when you say that (eg) stocks and shares are intangible property I'd argue that the only property involved is the piece of paper that says you have stocks/shares. The stocks/shares themselves are not property.
I'd also argue that a copy is not property; media onto which that copy is made is property.
Which means the Black Hats now can't simply attach a bomb to a cellphone. Instead they have to perform a substantial hardware and software hack - and not only hope it works when used in the field, but hope their algorithm is clever enough to analyze the signal detonate the bomb when the President is near it - rather than already well past.
That would assume that the goal of the attack is to actually kill or harm the President himself.
This is not what terrorism is about.
Setting off a bomb in proximity (spatial or temporal) to the presidential event would be enough.
Well I thought that George Bush had already settled it; *US* and Them. 'US' being universally recognised as 'Citizens of the United States of America' vs 'Them' being everyone else.
and therefore it lies outside of the concept of 'property'.
Property has become a funny word, much like 'gay', has become a funny word. 'Funny-strange' not 'Funny-haha'.
Its totally abused and has been 'stolen' from the language. (eg I recently heard a song which had a line like "We'll show our love in a gay cafe where hundreds of people will see". They were not talking about a "gay bar" this was an old song). So-called 'intellectual property' steals the word 'property' in a similar way.
Either something is a property as in 'the property of being red' or something is a property as in 'an object which is the property of some person or entity'.
Things which are not physical objects cannot be properties in the second sense.
'Being a movie' is a property; a movie cannot itself be a property.
xen-create-image --hostname........ done. Looks quite easy to me.
Now, you see, I've actually used xen-tools and I notice that you've cunningly left out the part where you edit/etc/xen-tools/xen-tools.conf
because what you get when you *don't* edit that config file to suit is this (for example): The kernel image we're trying to use does not exist. The image is -/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.16-2-xen-686 Aborting
ie the default config file for the current version of xen-tools points to the wrong kernel. And thats just for starters; in order to actually *use* xen-tools (instead of just showing off how 'easy' it is) you have to make quite a few changes to that config file.
Not that setting up Xen would be a challenge for any competent Linux sysadmin though. Especially not with xen-tools. But you *are* being disengenuous.
Why should someone who is satisfied with VMWare consider other alternatives?
How should someone who is satisfied witn VMWare decide whether an alternative would be an improvement? When the license terms for VMWare prohibit any benchmarking its kind of hard to make a decision.
The bad sysadmins have just been yanking the cables out of the back of the routers.
PHB: Can you fix our routers so that employees can't visit useless websites? Dogbert: I can do better than that, I can make it so they can't do anything useless at all. PHB: Really? How soon can you set that up? Dogbert: (rips the cables out of the router) Done. I've seen your business plan.
Name another religion that was started by a guy that came out and said "Starting my own religion would be a good way to make money"
Actually I don't think that Hubbard set up Scientology to make money; I heard that it was a bet (with Frank Herbert, IIRC) as to which one of them could found a world religion first. Frank didn't take it seriously but Hubbard did.
but what if I lock your barbecue grill shut and you dont see it until you have several guests in town. I deny instant access to use it. now you have to go get tools to break the lock or change your plan for the evening.
I use an oxy-acetylene torch as a barbecue starter, doesn't everyone?
The best thing that people could do is to start reporting every single unattended piece of garbage, shopping trolly, paper bag, cardboard box, tin can etc to the authorities as a 'suspect device'.
Something along the lines of: "You wanted to be notified of any suspicious devices or activities? Well theres a paper bag lying on the ground here at (insert location) and noone seems to know anything about it. Its big enough to hold a few sticks of dynamite or something. Just being a good citizen, sir!".
If the 'authorities' want to take *obvious* stuff like the mooninites publicity stunt *that* seriously then let them try to apply the same level of serious for any notification of 'suspect objects'.
The problem of stupid overreaction on the part of the 'authorities' will go away very very quickly.
we should get the whole 'human rights' thing right first.
Absolutely.
But things are a bit confused when (for example) Israelis and Arabs don't even regard one another as being *human* even though they are both arguably the same *race*.
If you squint really hard, you might actually be able to see a sport in between the commercials.
The worst part is, if you watch it live you don't actually see any more action... they are constantly taking 'time out' and re-arranging players etc. The players run around frantically for a few seconds then stand around idly for several minutes at a time.
but it has a long way to go before it even begins to touch the sort of mass media acceptance of games like World of Warcraft.
The interesting thing is that SL is the only online virtual world (for want of a better term) in which inhabitants can actually make a lasting change in the world which is tangible for other players.
In There you can introduce new textures or models at an exorbitant cost and at risk of losing $$$ when your texture or model is rejected. Oh and they approve models which cannot be placed in world due to an error in your model (they still charge you for it). But you cannot drop any object other than a vehicle or a PAZ; eg you can't drop clothing on the ground. Nothing is interactive apart from vehicles (sit and ride), chairs (sit), signposts (read and maybe post text). You cannot have a locked door or container which requires possession of another object (eg a key).
In WoW no changes that the inhabitants make is persistent (except, sometimes, for them). Kill something and it (mostly) respawns. Complete a quest by removing some supposedly unique artifact from some location and for another player the artifact is still there waiting to be picked up. Or, eg, turn someone into a rabbit for a quest and its only you who see the rabbit, not other players who still see the satyr and can talk to it and turn it into a rabbit. It is a truly bizarre, surreal world.
In SL you can actually create something in the world and leave it there for someone else to find.
As much as I hate SL, at least it has a sense of persistent interactivity.
The opposite extreme is companies with password Nazis who insist that your password be a certain length, follows a certain pattern
I've seen ones where they specify things like 'must be 10 characters long, contain 2 symbols, 2 numeric characters, 2 uppercase'. They don't seem to realise that they are actually *reducing* the complexity of possible passwords.
If a cracker knows that a password *will* contain, eg, 2 non-alphanumeric characters plus 2 numerals plus 2 upper case characters and the required length of the password this reduces the search space significantly.
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No beer is the cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems.
"Never drink to solve problems only to create them."
I believe that was from J.R. Bob Dobbs
Exactly. And thus the degree of freedom for the community as a whole has been decreased by the act of limiting the freedom to limit freedom.
Right, well *obviously* we need a new licensing scheme which will limit the freedom to limit the limits on limiting freedom. Duh.
Much like Ronald Reagans Starwars-programme engineering advisors who, when asked what the US would do if the Russians build anti-anti-missile missiles responded "Then we'll build anti-anti-anti-missile-missile missiles".
Honestly, its a no-brainer for anyone who has read Lewis Carroll..
However, they were looking into other, more synthetic ways of creating sugar.
They will probably start to use a method to synthesise sugar from crude oil...
Finally, built-in obsolescence for aluminium boats!
I predict that sales of antifouling paint will skyrocket when boat manufacturers get hold of this formula.
but they are not really alphabets, like Japanese Katakana/Hiragana can be argued to be
Wouldn't kata/hira-gana be 'syllabets'?
Wow you put a lot of time and effort into your reply, thats admirable.
One problem; when you say that (eg) stocks and shares are intangible property I'd argue that the only property involved is the piece of paper that says you have stocks/shares. The stocks/shares themselves are not property.
I'd also argue that a copy is not property; media onto which that copy is made is property.
Which means the Black Hats now can't simply attach a bomb to a cellphone. Instead they have to perform a substantial hardware and software hack - and not only hope it works when used in the field, but hope their algorithm is clever enough to analyze the signal detonate the bomb when the President is near it - rather than already well past.
That would assume that the goal of the attack is to actually kill or harm the President himself.
This is not what terrorism is about.
Setting off a bomb in proximity (spatial or temporal) to the presidential event would be enough.
I'm moving. Vikings, blonde girls, AND pirates? Irresistible!
Me too but only if they have a really serious dodgeball league...
Well I thought that George Bush had already settled it; *US* and Them. 'US' being universally recognised as 'Citizens of the United States of America' vs 'Them' being everyone else.
'Universal' like 'World' as in 'World Series'.
A modern army has a long tail and almost all of that stuff is both heavy and consumable.
You arn't kidding... Humvees at 5 miles per gallon require equally high-mobility fuel tankers.
and therefore it lies outside of the concept of 'property'.
Property has become a funny word, much like 'gay', has become a funny word. 'Funny-strange' not 'Funny-haha'.
Its totally abused and has been 'stolen' from the language. (eg I recently heard a song which had a line like "We'll show our love in a gay cafe where hundreds of people will see". They were not talking about a "gay bar" this was an old song). So-called 'intellectual property' steals the word 'property' in a similar way.
Either something is a property as in 'the property of being red' or something is a property as in 'an object which is the property of some person or entity'.
Things which are not physical objects cannot be properties in the second sense.
'Being a movie' is a property; a movie cannot itself be a property.
Yeah yeah, troll, flamebait, *whatever*.
xen-create-image --hostname ........ done. Looks quite easy to me.
/etc/xen-tools/xen-tools.conf
/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.16-2-xen-686
Now, you see, I've actually used xen-tools and I notice that you've cunningly left out the part where you edit
because what you get when you *don't* edit that config file to suit is this (for example):
The kernel image we're trying to use does not exist.
The image is -
Aborting
ie the default config file for the current version of xen-tools points to the wrong kernel. And thats just for starters; in order to actually *use* xen-tools (instead of just showing off how 'easy' it is) you have to make quite a few changes to that config file.
Not that setting up Xen would be a challenge for any competent Linux sysadmin though. Especially not with xen-tools. But you *are* being disengenuous.
Why should someone who is satisfied with VMWare consider other alternatives?
How should someone who is satisfied witn VMWare decide whether an alternative would be an improvement? When the license terms for VMWare prohibit any benchmarking its kind of hard to make a decision.
So What does it all mean, Basil?
That Manuel has been drinking the sherry again. And he found the good stuff this time?
Won't someone please think of the children and protect them from the nasty Norwegian PDF files!
The bad sysadmins have just been yanking the cables out of the back of the routers.
PHB: Can you fix our routers so that employees can't visit useless websites?
Dogbert: I can do better than that, I can make it so they can't do anything useless at all.
PHB: Really? How soon can you set that up?
Dogbert: (rips the cables out of the router) Done. I've seen your business plan.
Name another religion that was started by a guy that came out and said "Starting my own religion would be a good way to make money"
Actually I don't think that Hubbard set up Scientology to make money; I heard that it was a bet (with Frank Herbert, IIRC) as to which one of them could found a world religion first. Frank didn't take it seriously but Hubbard did.
but what if I lock your barbecue grill shut and you dont see it until you have several guests in town. I deny instant access to use it. now you have to go get tools to break the lock or change your plan for the evening.
I use an oxy-acetylene torch as a barbecue starter, doesn't everyone?
What other indicator of market success is there? Are people making money without selling things?
Well according to a certain Nigerian Barrister of my acquaintance, yes.
The best thing that people could do is to start reporting every single unattended piece of garbage, shopping trolly, paper bag, cardboard box, tin can etc to the authorities as a 'suspect device'.
Something along the lines of: "You wanted to be notified of any suspicious devices or activities? Well theres a paper bag lying on the ground here at (insert location) and noone seems to know anything about it. Its big enough to hold a few sticks of dynamite or something. Just being a good citizen, sir!".
If the 'authorities' want to take *obvious* stuff like the mooninites publicity stunt *that* seriously then let them try to apply the same level of serious for any notification of 'suspect objects'.
The problem of stupid overreaction on the part of the 'authorities' will go away very very quickly.
we should get the whole 'human rights' thing right first.
Absolutely.
But things are a bit confused when (for example) Israelis and Arabs don't even regard one another as being *human* even though they are both arguably the same *race*.
That includes being able to yell "FIRE!" in a crowded theater.
Maybe theres a distinction to be made between 'freedom of speech' and 'freedom of yelling'?
If you squint really hard, you might actually be able to see a sport in between the commercials.
The worst part is, if you watch it live you don't actually see any more action... they are constantly taking 'time out' and re-arranging players etc. The players run around frantically for a few seconds then stand around idly for several minutes at a time.
You get more action in test cricket.
but it has a long way to go before it even begins to touch the sort of mass media acceptance of games like World of Warcraft.
The interesting thing is that SL is the only online virtual world (for want of a better term) in which inhabitants can actually make a lasting change in the world which is tangible for other players.
In There you can introduce new textures or models at an exorbitant cost and at risk of losing $$$ when your texture or model is rejected. Oh and they approve models which cannot be placed in world due to an error in your model (they still charge you for it). But you cannot drop any object other than a vehicle or a PAZ; eg you can't drop clothing on the ground. Nothing is interactive apart from vehicles (sit and ride), chairs (sit), signposts (read and maybe post text). You cannot have a locked door or container which requires possession of another object (eg a key).
In WoW no changes that the inhabitants make is persistent (except, sometimes, for them). Kill something and it (mostly) respawns. Complete a quest by removing some supposedly unique artifact from some location and for another player the artifact is still there waiting to be picked up. Or, eg, turn someone into a rabbit for a quest and its only you who see the rabbit, not other players who still see the satyr and can talk to it and turn it into a rabbit. It is a truly bizarre, surreal world.
In SL you can actually create something in the world and leave it there for someone else to find.
As much as I hate SL, at least it has a sense of persistent interactivity.
The opposite extreme is companies with password Nazis who insist that your password be a certain length, follows a certain pattern
I've seen ones where they specify things like 'must be 10 characters long, contain 2 symbols, 2 numeric characters, 2 uppercase'. They don't seem to realise that they are actually *reducing* the complexity of possible passwords.
If a cracker knows that a password *will* contain, eg, 2 non-alphanumeric characters plus 2 numerals plus 2 upper case characters and the required length of the password this reduces the search space significantly.