These are the tactics that we accused Microsoft of when they were trying to push other browsers like Netscape and other OSes like Linux out of the market. I'm pretty convinced they work.
Give people for free the stuff that you want them to at least try once. They they have to DO THINGS to get rid of it or change it. People are lazy, so at least some won't.
As to where will this end up? Well the small white-box assembly shops might be tempted to use the Lindows install on the drive to burn-in the computer. And leave it on if the customer didn't order a MicroSoft install. So the end users might end up seeing it. Great.
Some people buy a new HD, and will install it as the first drive, move the old one over. Bingo!
I installed two machines last week. They came with Seagate drives. Had a Debian based installation already been present, I'd just have upgraded that.:-) I'm a lazy guy!
When a virus scanner has an "ID" on a virus, the config for that virus should be able to say: DO NOT report to the sender. This flag should be on for "Sobig.F".
But for a number of other virusses, the flag could be left off, so that people whose computer is infected DO get warnings.
.... and the research shows that, in fact, SCO's rights were breached.
Ehmm. If I had just a little more time on my hands, then I'd personally go to SCO and say: Guys, I want to stop infringing on your IP. Please tell me where it is, and I'll remove it and run Linux without your code ASAP. I'm pretty sure that I've shown enough "good will" that way. If they refuse to tell me what parts to remove, then that's their problem.
So, whenever parts of the Linux kernel turn up "identical" to parts of SCO, we'll
show that it's code legal to use in Linux.
or remove it and reprogram without the offending code.
The SCO strategy is to prevent the Open Source community from removing the offending code. As long as they can maintain this situation, they can continue to extort money from Linux users. As soon as they show the code, we'll remove it.
Keep in mind the way this works in practise. Some guys who know very little of the problem and possible solutions at hand will decide on the "best" solution while throwing around a lot of buzzwords. This converges on a "solution". That's when the realization hits that the needed expertise is not available....
Water in a cloud is no longer in vapor form. The water in the air below the cloud is generally in vapor form. It's transparent, as opposed to whitish when it's in small particles.
The weight of the water in a unit of volume of air just below your standard cumulus cloud is about the same as the weight of the water-vapor in the could.
Anyway, your standard cloud being 1km x 1km x 200m, the weight of the AIR in that cloud comes to 1.2 kg/m^3 * 1000*1000*200 / 1000 kg/tonne= 240 thousand tonnes. That should be about 20 times as much as the weight of the water in the cloud. (there is about 5% water in air/cloud).
I made a hot-air baloon of about 64 m^3 once (over 60 kg, about the same weight as a human!). Once it was rising, it was impossible to stop using the line we used: 6kg strength. Once it was moving at 1m/s it should have taken at least 10 seconds to slow it down. If you try to hurry it a bit, SNAP. That's what happened. The baloon was not weighted at the bottom, so it turned over, let most of the hot air escape, and crashed 3km further in some cactusses.
Even if it costs you $2,- to recharge your Li-Ion battery pack, nobody has seen the bill for this.
It either adds to your home electricty bill, or you just use the stuff at work.
Now if the refill can be as cheap as $2,- (which I doubt!) people will have to go to the store and PAY for the stuff. That's going to be a big psychological barrier for lots of people: "I never paid for a recharge before....."
SPAM now pays. For every dollar spent on sending Emails, more than a dollar is earned in the selling of whatever is advertized.
Once nine out of ten ISPs switch to using AMTP, that one ISP that's left out will not be very popular anymore as that's where you still get (lots of) spam. And when the number of people who get the SPAM is reduced, we can only hope that some threshold of the spammers is reached: that it starts to cost more than a dollar to earn a dollar in the selling of the product.....
I'm not sure what the last worm did, but either it did the SMTP itself, in which case that would be forbidden by AMTP: your computer doesn't have a certificate for your dynamically assigned IP.
Or it just connected to your configured SMTP server, where your ISP can determine: There is no way that this guy could be typing so fast.... and take appropriate measures.
I play a very small ISP. Paying $100 for a certificate is a significant investment. (which I HAVE to have even if I just need to recieve Email on my server!)
My clients generally don't send Email through MY server. So they will be connecting to their dial-in or broadband provider and Emailing (for example) "From: slashdottroll@bitwizard.nl". (will the spammers pick this up? Let you know in 12 months...;-)
I can see the small ISPs here accept that. Phone them, have the guy on the phone hack the asendmail config file, done! I can see the larger ISPs accept it as long as you host your domain with them. They can automate the config file generation. But as a small ISP without dial-in services, I'll be forced out of business: none of my clients get to send Email from their own domain anymore....
If you think that the mailserver should get out of the way, ask your provider (or make your mailserver) to accept all types of mail. But now you have a header on the Email written by a "trusted" mailserver that says what type of Email it is.
You get better tools to complain. I got virusses claiming to be from Alan Cox and other wellknown people. This means that someone's mailserver allowed forging of that address. This worm would have allowed me to figure out the policies of hundreds of remote mailservers.
Ehmmm. Guys, Do the math.... When flying at "around the speed of sound", or at about 300m/s, and a pulse (jet/detonation) engine running at 100-1000 Hz will produce a pulse around every 0.3 to 3 meters.
You're not going to see 3m dognuts around a trail at 5km distance....
A local supermarktet serves its customers, as the more products they sell, the more they earn. If they cut corners by making their policy in reordering the corn flakes such that they are sometimes short of corn flakes, they know that people will go and buy the cornflakes in another supermarket and might notice: "Hey this is better than the old one" and stay there. They lost a long-term customer.
If an electricity company doesn't sell any electricity for a day they loose about 0.3% of their annual turnover. And they don't even have to pay for the electricity they didn't make themselves. It is not an important penalty if they go "out" for a relatively short period. Their clients won't go running for other suppliers etc.etc.
So, who profits from 365 days of electricity and not 364? It is "the community". How about paying the electricity companies a bonus (of say 3% of their annual turnover) which is reduced by the number of person-hours squared that they didn't deliver any electricty? The constant should be such that they blew their bonus for this year completely with this event.....
I think the state could fund that bonus as an incentive to keep the reserves high and the reliability up. Maybe it should be the consumers: After every year they get to charge you the bonus if the electricity worked the whole year.....
Freedom of speach is intended to allow you to voice your opinion. Things like "that Bush guy is crazy for getting our country involved in the mess in the middle east". If that's your opinion, you should be able to say so.
People are applying the "free speach" thingy to unintended messages like: "Buy stuff from me". That's not what free speach was meant for.
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I read the article but I don't know what power levels they achieved: "only very low power levels".
But current implants are designed to last a couple of years on the provided batteries. So they can't use very much power.
My 1980 watch used 0.35 microwatts. The battery lasted around a year. I expect implants to use around that level of power (0.5 to 2 times the power, with a 1x to 4x larger battery).... So if the device can be made to provide around that level of power, an implant might not require the operation to replace the battery every 2-3 years.
On the other hand, the electrodes doing the electron exchange with the glucose might not last that long.... That would defeat the whole idea...
What works for me: - Have a normal breakfast 3-4 days a week. Don't have breakfast the other days. - Occasionally have lunch. Eat 1 - 3 apples otherwise. - Drink lots of water. - Eat normal dinners (those tend to be the social activities where you cannot/should not put yourself out of the group).
I know a thing or two about filesystems: I work in the data-recovery business.
This article was written by someone who has some basic details, and has fantasized a lot of incorrect info around it. Bunches of terms are used incorrectly etc. etc.
NTFS is a very well-thought-out filesystem. It can be made to perform well, and has almost no limits. (it does have limits: For example, files are limited to about 16 Billion gigabytes. Something like that....)
I sure hope they don't throw away the good things about NTFS....
Microsoft makes very little "good" software. But the NTFS filesystem generates the impression that it's different. They probably didn't design it themselves.
Bullshit! If I would take today off, I could write Wolffix (fully from scratch!), and licence it to you to use on ONE computer. Or I can licence it to you to use on your computer for a period of one year from now.
I could also licence it to you, allowing you to run and sell the product until 13th of june 2004. You and your clients are allowed to run the product during that time, but a new licence fee is required after that.
It al depends on the actual contract between the two. You haven't seen the contract, neither have I.
Of course, IBM would be quite stupid to enter in a contract where some other party were able to demand any ransom they want if IBM would like (their clients) to continue to run AIX.
Roger.
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Why higher voltages? The higher the voltage, the lower the current (amps).
Losses are mostly related to the number of amps. So, given that you have a 12V battery, and require about 1.2 kW for the starter motor, you need about 100 amps. That requires hefty cables.
At 42V, that same 1.2kW starter motor requires only 29 amps.
If you want to be able to plug in an "old fashioned" 12V radio, a local step-down converter can be had pretty cheaply, and can convert 42 to 12 without trouble. This works the same way as your computer converts 5V or 12V to 1.2V for the CPU.
Which in fact is the same as your powersupply which converts the rectified 230 or 110 (320 or 154V respectively) to the 12V in the first place.
Oh, about 48V (4*12) screwing with a 42V battery... A 12V battery charges at 14 - 14.4 Volts. That would translate to 49 volts for a 42V battery.
Here in a little country called The Netherlands in Western Europe, we house the "international court of Justice". This formally has nothing to do with our country. We just happen provide a place for this institution to "live". This court tries to be fair to dirtbags that order thousands killed in wars.
The United States has "promised" us that they will invade us if "we" ever convict an American of such things.
So, the Europeans should trust their friendly American "friends", who openly refuse to be subjected to the internationally agreed upon "police"? Right.
There are always "differences" between countries. We think that shooting someone for being on your property is outrageous. You think that allowing small quantities of drugs is outrageous.
If at one point in time we (any European country) end up with a difference of opinion that the Americans find important, we'll certainly be refused the right to use the GPS system in a conflict situation.
Also, should anything go wrong with GPS, it's nice to have a backup. I mean how big is the chance that suddenly the Americans end up unable to launch (replacement) satelites for over a year? Only happened twice so far....
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These are the tactics that we accused Microsoft of when they were trying to push other browsers like Netscape and other OSes like Linux out of the market. I'm pretty convinced they work.
:-) I'm a lazy guy!
Give people for free the stuff that you want them to at least try once. They they have to DO THINGS to get rid of it or change it. People are lazy, so at least some won't.
As to where will this end up? Well the small white-box assembly shops might be tempted to use the Lindows install on the drive to burn-in the computer. And leave it on if the customer didn't order a MicroSoft install. So the end users might end up seeing it. Great.
Some people buy a new HD, and will install it as the first drive, move the old one over. Bingo!
I installed two machines last week. They came with Seagate drives. Had a Debian based installation already been present, I'd just have upgraded that.
Hi Andrew, Your page doesn't have an Email address, and your homepage crashes my galeon. Hope to reach you by "slashdot"...
I would write the IP as:
static char IP_TO_BLOCK[]={64,94,110,11};
That should make the code more readable.
When a virus scanner has an "ID" on a virus, the config for that virus should be able to say: DO NOT report to the sender. This flag should be on for "Sobig.F".
But for a number of other virusses, the flag could be left off, so that people whose computer is infected DO get warnings.
Ehmm. If I had just a little more time on my hands, then I'd personally go to SCO and say: Guys, I want to stop infringing on your IP. Please tell me where it is, and I'll remove it and run Linux without your code ASAP. I'm pretty sure that I've shown enough "good will" that way. If they refuse to tell me what parts to remove, then that's their problem.
So, whenever parts of the Linux kernel turn up "identical" to parts of SCO, we'll
The SCO strategy is to prevent the Open Source community from removing the offending code. As long as they can maintain this situation, they can continue to extort money from Linux users. As soon as they show the code, we'll remove it.
You're wrong about the given enough permissions part. They allowed it to just about anybody. No permissions involved....
1. What exactly demands this solution?
Keep in mind the way this works in practise. Some guys who know very little of the problem and possible solutions at hand will decide on the "best" solution while throwing around a lot of buzzwords. This converges on a "solution". That's when the realization hits that the needed expertise is not available....
Water in a cloud is no longer in vapor form. The water in the air below the cloud is generally in vapor form. It's transparent, as opposed to whitish when it's in small particles.
The weight of the water in a unit of volume of air just below your standard cumulus cloud is about the same as the weight of the water-vapor in the could.
Anyway, your standard cloud being 1km x 1km x 200m, the weight of the AIR in that cloud comes to 1.2 kg/m^3 * 1000*1000*200 / 1000 kg/tonne= 240 thousand tonnes. That should be about 20 times as much as the weight of the water in the cloud. (there is about 5% water in air/cloud).
I made a hot-air baloon of about 64 m^3 once (over 60 kg, about the same weight as a human!). Once it was rising, it was impossible to stop using the line we used: 6kg strength. Once it was moving at 1m/s it should have taken at least 10 seconds to slow it down. If you try to hurry it a bit, SNAP. That's what happened. The baloon was not weighted at the bottom, so it turned over, let most of the hot air escape, and crashed 3km further in some cactusses.
How much will the refueling cartridge cost?
Even if it costs you $2,- to recharge your Li-Ion battery pack, nobody has seen the bill for this.
It either adds to your home electricty bill, or you just use the stuff at work.
Now if the refill can be as cheap as $2,- (which I doubt!) people will have to go to the store and PAY for the stuff. That's going to be a big psychological barrier for lots of people: "I never paid for a recharge before....."
Roger.
SPAM now pays. For every dollar spent on sending Emails, more than a dollar is earned in the selling of whatever is advertized.
Once nine out of ten ISPs switch to using AMTP, that one ISP that's left out will not be very popular anymore as that's where you still get (lots of) spam. And when the number of people who get the SPAM is reduced, we can only hope that some threshold of the spammers is reached: that it starts to cost more than a dollar to earn a dollar in the selling of the product.....
I'm not sure what the last worm did, but either it did the SMTP itself, in which case that would be forbidden by AMTP: your computer doesn't have a certificate for your dynamically assigned IP.
Or it just connected to your configured SMTP server, where your ISP can determine: There is no way that this guy could be typing so fast.... and take appropriate measures.
Roger.
I play a very small ISP. Paying $100 for a certificate is a significant investment. (which I HAVE to have even if I just need to recieve Email on my server!)
;-)
My clients generally don't send Email through MY server. So they will be connecting to their dial-in or broadband provider and Emailing (for example) "From: slashdottroll@bitwizard.nl". (will the spammers pick this up? Let you know in 12 months...
I can see the small ISPs here accept that. Phone them, have the guy on the phone hack the asendmail config file, done! I can see the larger ISPs accept it as long as you host your domain with them. They can automate the config file generation. But as a small ISP without dial-in services, I'll be forced out of business: none of my clients get to send Email from their own domain anymore....
If you think that the mailserver should get out of the way, ask your provider (or make your mailserver) to accept all types of mail. But now you have a header on the Email written by a "trusted" mailserver that says what type of Email it is.
You get better tools to complain. I got virusses claiming to be from Alan Cox and other wellknown people. This means that someone's mailserver allowed forging of that address. This worm would have allowed me to figure out the policies of hundreds of remote mailservers.
IIRC, fair use in the case of software includes, as determined by some court, making one copy for backup purposes.
Basically gone? I got 160 megs of virus this weekend. That's about the same as the first day of the epidemic. (but less than the second day).
Ehmmm. Guys, Do the math.... When flying at "around the speed of sound", or at about 300m/s, and a pulse (jet/detonation) engine running at 100-1000 Hz will produce a pulse around every 0.3 to 3 meters.
.
You're not going to see 3m dognuts around a trail at 5km distance...
Roger.
A local supermarktet serves its customers, as the more products they sell, the more they earn. If they cut corners by making their policy in reordering the corn flakes such that they are sometimes short of corn flakes, they know that people will go and buy the cornflakes in another supermarket and might notice: "Hey this is better than the old one" and stay there. They lost a long-term customer.
If an electricity company doesn't sell any electricity for a day they loose about 0.3% of their annual turnover. And they don't even have to pay for the electricity they didn't make themselves. It is not an important penalty if they go "out" for a relatively short period. Their clients won't go running for other suppliers etc.etc.
So, who profits from 365 days of electricity and not 364? It is "the community". How about paying the electricity companies a bonus (of say 3% of their annual turnover) which is reduced by the number of person-hours squared that they didn't deliver any electricty? The constant should be such that they blew their bonus for this year completely with this event.....
I think the state could fund that bonus as an incentive to keep the reserves high and the reliability up. Maybe it should be the consumers: After every year they get to charge you the bonus if the electricity worked the whole year.....
Freedom of speach is intended to allow you to voice your opinion. Things like "that Bush guy is crazy for getting our country involved in the mess in the middle east". If that's your opinion, you should be able to say so.
People are applying the "free speach" thingy to unintended messages like: "Buy stuff from me". That's not what free speach was meant for.
I read the article but I don't know what power levels they achieved: "only very low power levels".
But current implants are designed to last a couple of years on the provided batteries. So they can't use very much power.
My 1980 watch used 0.35 microwatts. The battery lasted around a year. I expect implants to use around that level of power (0.5 to 2 times the power, with a 1x to 4x larger battery).... So if the device can be made to provide around that level of power, an implant might not require the operation to replace the battery every 2-3 years.
On the other hand, the electrodes doing the electron exchange with the glucose might not last that long.... That would defeat the whole idea...
Roger.
I didn't read the story either, but I understand that one volunteer made the mistake, so all volunteers got booted.
The technical gliteches plague the users of bymusic.
I went to their site and it told me to download IE, which won't work as I run Linux. I sent them an Email. Which bounced, I think.
Simple: Don't eat too much.
What works for me:
- Have a normal breakfast 3-4 days a week. Don't have breakfast the other days.
- Occasionally have lunch. Eat 1 - 3 apples otherwise.
- Drink lots of water.
- Eat normal dinners (those tend to be the social activities where you cannot/should not put yourself out of the group).
Roger.
.... partly..... and barfed.
I know a thing or two about filesystems: I work in the data-recovery business.
This article was written by someone who has some basic details, and has fantasized a lot of incorrect info around it. Bunches of terms are used incorrectly etc. etc.
NTFS is a very well-thought-out filesystem. It can be made to perform well, and has almost no limits. (it does have limits: For example, files are limited to about 16 Billion gigabytes. Something like that....)
I sure hope they don't throw away the good things about NTFS....
Microsoft makes very little "good" software. But the NTFS filesystem generates the impression that it's different. They probably didn't design it themselves.
Bullshit! If I would take today off, I could write Wolffix (fully from scratch!), and licence it to you to use on ONE computer. Or I can licence it to you to use on your computer for a period of one year from now.
I could also licence it to you, allowing you to run and sell the product until 13th of june 2004. You and your clients are allowed to run the product during that time, but a new licence fee is required after that.
It al depends on the actual contract between the two. You haven't seen the contract, neither have I.
Of course, IBM would be quite stupid to enter in a contract where some other party were able to demand any ransom they want if IBM would like (their clients) to continue to run AIX.
Roger.
Why higher voltages? The higher the voltage, the lower the current (amps).
Losses are mostly related to the number of amps. So, given that you have a 12V battery, and require about 1.2 kW for the starter motor, you need about 100 amps. That requires hefty cables.
At 42V, that same 1.2kW starter motor requires only 29 amps.
If you want to be able to plug in an "old fashioned" 12V radio, a local step-down converter can be had pretty cheaply, and can convert 42 to 12 without trouble. This works the same way as your computer converts 5V or 12V to 1.2V for the CPU.
Which in fact is the same as your powersupply which converts the rectified 230 or 110 (320 or 154V respectively) to the 12V in the first place.
Oh, about 48V (4*12) screwing with a 42V battery... A 12V battery charges at 14 - 14.4 Volts. That would translate to 49 volts for a 42V battery.
Roger.
Here in a little country called The Netherlands in Western Europe, we house the "international court of Justice". This formally has nothing to do with our country. We just happen provide a place for this institution to "live". This court tries to be fair to dirtbags that order thousands killed in wars.
The United States has "promised" us that they will invade us if "we" ever convict an American of such things.
So, the Europeans should trust their friendly American "friends", who openly refuse to be subjected to the internationally agreed upon "police"? Right.
There are always "differences" between countries. We think that shooting someone for being on your property is outrageous. You think that allowing small quantities of drugs is outrageous.
If at one point in time we (any European country) end up with a difference of opinion that the Americans find important, we'll certainly be refused the right to use the GPS system in a conflict situation.
Also, should anything go wrong with GPS, it's nice to have a backup. I mean how big is the chance that suddenly the Americans end up unable to launch (replacement) satelites for over a year? Only happened twice so far....