I would imagine it goes like this: You have some IP you want protected. You file for something to protect it (new something, copyright, whatever). You claim a value. You make up the value - whatever you want to say it is. You are then taxed on that value.
I agree up to the point where you're forced to sell your property, given that that's not the case for any other kind of property.
As a natural consequence of stating the value of property: you can't claim damages for more than the value of your IP. So if a label owns a thousand songs and are only willing to pay taxes on 10 of them, they can't sue me for damages if I download the other 990. A further consequence is that if a company has old software, they'll retire the copyright rather than continue paying taxes on it.
Of course, it's not property, so all this is rather academic.
Furthermore, it would seem that the process of reading a file would be far faster if the processing instructions were on the local file system rather than on a remote host. If one were really worried about changes to the instructions, one could code a routine to update the DTD whenever the application is updated; if the app isn't such that *would* be updated, one could always have it run a diff against the W3C's DTD every few months - after it's been standardized, it's not like the DTD is going to change on a daily basis.
It's more like this: your app should *never* query the DTD. If the DTD changes, your app's code probably needs to change and your app should *never* try to parse using a DTD that hasn't been tested by a human being, or at least through your regression tests. Any changes to DTDs should be handled by updating the app itself.
The only exception to this is an app that also happens to be a development tool.
2) You also didn't mention that his inefficient perl script does the same thing bash would have to do: launch cp for each file copy. And it doesn't help the guy's case that he doesn't know any Perl. His efficient example is could be rewritten as use File::Copy; copy($_, "$_.bak") for glob "*.doc"'; Frankly, the fact that Unix shells require that I remember obscure syntax to do what DOS could do with ren *.foo *.bar makes me go to Perl for anything more than a trivial script.
I can honestly say using them since 1986 I've taken a Mac in for service once, because it was a known defect and was fixed for free. I've owned six and each time I either sold it or donated it to upgrade to a new machine, usually after six years of service. My iPod, now five years old, still works, after I bought a battery replacement kit.
It really never ceases to amaze me that when you can get a reliable machine, how much crap people will put up with for the false economies of a PC.
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Comments simply complaining about trolls, flamers, off-topicers and redundant posters simply adds more noise to the already deafening sound of useless posts on Slashdot.
The reason for that is that the responses to FP trolls are almost invariably deliberate trolls themselves.
Microsoft has tried to address the exposures by disabling macros by default in Office, but the control they provide isn't fine-grained enough to do more than pass the buck to the customers who have to enable the lower security levels to get their documents working.
I have a few macro-enabled Office documents that I signed with a CAC. It's actually pretty easy to do, and any time I save an update to the macros it automatically prompts me for my CAC. It works pretty nicely.
I genuinely can't understand the mentality of all these people who claim to be constantly going on 10+ hour flights with no access power sockets and want an ultraportable laptop but also want to carry the weight of several spare batteries.
Moreover, I don't think any of them have actually *bought* spare batteries or they'd realize what a waste of money they are.
I bought myself a spare battery and it occasionally came in handy. But it doesn't justify the expense, especially when you realize that Li ion batteries lose capacity not only every time you go through a recharge cycle, but also just from sitting around. (Even if you discharge them monthly as you're supposed to.)
It doesn't matter if you use one or two batteries, you'll wind up replacing them twice every three years. You'll just be spending an extra $80 for the very occasional convenience.
anyone who is intellectually honest must 'acknowledge, confront and speak to the tidal wave of unlawful, wholesale reproduction and distribution of copyrighted content that is currently occurring in the digital world'
Yes.
and that we should be [sic] 'identify workable, flexible and effective approaches that reduce piracy without being intrusive and that fully respect other interests such as privacy and fair use.'
No. Piracy is a symptom, not the problem.
What we need is a workable business model, one that makes life easy for consumers and hard for criminals. Companies selling big ticket items, like big DBMSs, already have a working business model because their clients are willing to accept careful monitoring. F/OSS "just works," as does custom software. Certain companies like Apple are able to tie software to hardware, another workable business model.
When you look at ones that *don't* have a workable business model, they have one thing in common: nothing they do is particularly irreplaceable. Movies, music and television are pretty obviously replaceable, and even most software would be replaceable if we had a genuine need. The other thing they have in common is that we'd probably be better off without them.
The chances you had of MRSA killing you in England and Wales, with everyone going mental over it, in 2005 - 1 in 32,000.
Chances of dying the same death in a country with market-driven health system, where people are NOT specifically looking for MRSA - 1 in 15,800.
You know, every drug approved in the US is FDA regulated, every medical school is government certified, every person pays taxes into Medicare, and most people get health care through insurance, which is virtually government run... The only "market-driven" aspect of US health care is that you can ignore it and pay cash if you want, so it's fairer to say the US is 95% regulated while the UK is 99%.
I'll let those numbers sink in. British readers might want to look at them again and make sure up is still up.
If my health care system "went nuts" over a disease and only got it down to half of the one that did nothing, yeah, I would want to make sure up is up.
This is either the longest and most researched Flaimbait ever to appear on SlashDot...
Support is built into Safari, and it is possible to set it up to log into a Windows domain, I believe.
I've done it with OS X 10.4, my military ID and the CAC reader they sell at the PX. No software to install, works with any application that supports Keychain. Works much better than Windows.
How many times do I have to keep telling people that security is more about the skill of the IT staff than it is about the operating system it runs on?
You know the old saw about how military intelligence is an oxymoron? Well, the same is true for S-6 Automations.
On a lark, I once asked one of our S-6 guys if he had ever automated anything. He looked at me blankly. Did not know what the word meant.
Oh, and S-6 and S-2 are two completely separate shops within HHC. I'm sure that, in theory, they coordinate and cross-train. Ours are on two different streets.
The people who prey on the desperation inherent in this situation are among the worst kind of criminal. Their victims, while perhaps lacking some of the clarity of reasoning, are still purely victims.
Oh, please. The GP calls them worthless and stupid and you call them desperate victims which is just a nice way of saying worthless and stupid. Hell, you even went *beyond* him to say they're incapable of clear reasoning.
They're competent, educated adults living in a rich country with lots of social programs and plenty of information. They choose to screw up their lives and these con-artists are perfectly happy to help them along that path. They're wrong to screw up their lives (in so far as they tend to drag their families with them) just as these people are criminals for expediting it.
Frankly, you're contributing to this situation by glorifying victimhood. The fact is that just because you're dying of cancer doesn't mean you're any less responsible if you go to some faith-healer, and the cancer certainly isn't going to treat you any nicer. We wouldn't be having this discussion if people would stop finding any retarded excuse to abandon reason!
If you are pursing a fleeing suspect, the last thing you need is 200 pounds mounted on your roof. This would seriously affect the way the cop cruiser handles.
All these operations are coordinated. These things would be used in place of traditional roadblocks.
The police helicopter figures out where they're going, and calls for a truck, with the device mounted in the bed, to wait around a handy corner.
Fleeing suspect slows down to make a turn and his engine dies. There's no reason to use something like this in a high speed chase.
Why are so many databases still tabular today and not hierarchal?
Because we've tried the hierarchical model in all its iterations and it sucks. To specify integrity constraints, you have to use graph theory. And while certain modes of access work, ad hoc queries are painful. Normalizing your data is often impossible. If you can't make sure the data is what it's supposed to be, and you can't make sure you only have one copy of it (normalizing) and you can't run arbitrary queries, your DBMS sucks.
The only reason people keep going back to hierarchical models (such as XML) is because the tabular SQL structure is the only game in town. It's not: there is such a thing as the relational model, and SQL is even loosely based on it, but SQL DBMSs are only vaguely relational.
SELECT name FROM table WHERE key='xyz'; seems so archaic and limited compared to something PHP-like such as $table['xyz']['name'] where $table is a disk-based global variable accessible from all scripts and automatically synchronized at all times.
Shit, even in Access you can say DLookup("name", "table", "key='xyz'"). In PHP, how do you get a value from something *other* than the key? And how do you group by months and sum scores? Get the top 20% of something? If you answered "I iterated through the data set" for any of those, your DBMS sucks. If you can't take that result and use it as a table just like any other, your DBMS sucks.
Let's look at integrity: even in SQL, a foreign key constraint is as simple as "FOREIGN KEY foo (bar)". Show me the syntax to do that in a hierarchical database. In a relational database, it's *always* a to b. In a hierarchical database, you get to screw around with graph theory. (Note that with cyclic foreign keys, SQL will require carefully ordered inserts, this is a deficiency of SQL because the relational model proper allows for simultaneous inserts.)
I don't understand why anyone would actively attack them over not including this particular one.
People tried asking politely, and Google dismissed them in a rather arrogant manner. Then when they were further pressed, they gave contradictory explanations.
Google's a bit naive in thinking that little doodles that are transmitted to millions of people don't need to have a clear policy dictating their usage.
From a european view, the democrats are right wing, just a bit shy of being extreme right wing (neo-nazi). Republicans would come dangerously close to extreme right wing.
Bullshit. Europe is notably left of America, true, but they also have plenty of far-right groups that David Duke would be at home in. Just look at the debate over Muslim immigrants in European countries and the nakedly racist anti-immigrant sentiment it has stirred up. Contrast that with America where even immediately after 9/11 the president called for tolerance.
Everything that makes Europe a welfare state, massive taxation (especially the VAT), socialized health care, heavy union influence, no gun rights, are all things the Democrats would *love* to implement in the States.
Furthermore, Europe has heavily statist tendencies that neither party in America has called for, such as mandatory national IDs and secret police. All the things that policies like PATRIOT are supposedly doing in the States have been done in Europe for years. And while America has the death penalty, countries like France have a prison suicide rate that dwarfs even China's (per capita) use of the death penalty. At least the death penalty is subject to due process and public scrutiny!
You made your system work, we made our system work.
It broke down rather famously in Europe War I and Europe War II. And you're terrible neighbors.
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Consider VoIP... people are deliberately choosing telephony services that are less reliable and lower quality than POTS, because VoIP is cheaper.
That's a bad analogy. The big selling point of VOIP is in long distance service which can be hugely expensive and not terribly reliable.
You must be running some entirely different magical version of windows that I've ever seen
Yeah, it's the version of Windows that just has a webserver and a database running on it.
If you never install software or run a web browser, Windows won't need a reboot until the next service pack.
I would imagine it goes like this: You have some IP you want protected. You file for something to protect it (new something, copyright, whatever). You claim a value. You make up the value - whatever you want to say it is. You are then taxed on that value.
I agree up to the point where you're forced to sell your property, given that that's not the case for any other kind of property.
As a natural consequence of stating the value of property: you can't claim damages for more than the value of your IP. So if a label owns a thousand songs and are only willing to pay taxes on 10 of them, they can't sue me for damages if I download the other 990. A further consequence is that if a company has old software, they'll retire the copyright rather than continue paying taxes on it.
Of course, it's not property, so all this is rather academic.
Furthermore, it would seem that the process of reading a file would be far faster if the processing instructions were on the local file system rather than on a remote host. If one were really worried about changes to the instructions, one could code a routine to update the DTD whenever the application is updated; if the app isn't such that *would* be updated, one could always have it run a diff against the W3C's DTD every few months - after it's been standardized, it's not like the DTD is going to change on a daily basis.
It's more like this: your app should *never* query the DTD. If the DTD changes, your app's code probably needs to change and your app should *never* try to parse using a DTD that hasn't been tested by a human being, or at least through your regression tests. Any changes to DTDs should be handled by updating the app itself.
The only exception to this is an app that also happens to be a development tool.
2) You also didn't mention that his inefficient perl script does the same thing bash would have to do: launch cp for each file copy. And it doesn't help the guy's case that he doesn't know any Perl. His efficient example is could be rewritten as use File::Copy; copy($_, "$_.bak") for glob "*.doc"'; Frankly, the fact that Unix shells require that I remember obscure syntax to do what DOS could do with ren *.foo *.bar makes me go to Perl for anything more than a trivial script.
I can honestly say using them since 1986 I've taken a Mac in for service once, because it was a known defect and was fixed for free. I've owned six and each time I either sold it or donated it to upgrade to a new machine, usually after six years of service. My iPod, now five years old, still works, after I bought a battery replacement kit.
It really never ceases to amaze me that when you can get a reliable machine, how much crap people will put up with for the false economies of a PC.
Comments simply complaining about trolls, flamers, off-topicers and redundant posters simply adds more noise to the already deafening sound of useless posts on Slashdot.
The reason for that is that the responses to FP trolls are almost invariably deliberate trolls themselves.
Start with how to force banks to quit being assholes and create a universal OPEN electronic payment system that has ZERO cost.
How are they supposed to make money? Who pays for fraud? Who pays for maintenance of the electronic infrastructure? Customer support?
Microsoft has tried to address the exposures by disabling macros by default in Office, but the control they provide isn't fine-grained enough to do more than pass the buck to the customers who have to enable the lower security levels to get their documents working.
I have a few macro-enabled Office documents that I signed with a CAC. It's actually pretty easy to do, and any time I save an update to the macros it automatically prompts me for my CAC. It works pretty nicely.
I genuinely can't understand the mentality of all these people who claim to be constantly going on 10+ hour flights with no access power sockets and want an ultraportable laptop but also want to carry the weight of several spare batteries.
Moreover, I don't think any of them have actually *bought* spare batteries or they'd realize what a waste of money they are.
I bought myself a spare battery and it occasionally came in handy. But it doesn't justify the expense, especially when you realize that Li ion batteries lose capacity not only every time you go through a recharge cycle, but also just from sitting around. (Even if you discharge them monthly as you're supposed to.)
It doesn't matter if you use one or two batteries, you'll wind up replacing them twice every three years. You'll just be spending an extra $80 for the very occasional convenience.
You've got "facts" confused with "wishful thinking".
anyone who is intellectually honest must 'acknowledge, confront and speak to the tidal wave of unlawful, wholesale reproduction and distribution of copyrighted content that is currently occurring in the digital world'
Yes.
and that we should be [sic] 'identify workable, flexible and effective approaches that reduce piracy without being intrusive and that fully respect other interests such as privacy and fair use.'
No. Piracy is a symptom, not the problem.
What we need is a workable business model, one that makes life easy for consumers and hard for criminals. Companies selling big ticket items, like big DBMSs, already have a working business model because their clients are willing to accept careful monitoring. F/OSS "just works," as does custom software. Certain companies like Apple are able to tie software to hardware, another workable business model.
When you look at ones that *don't* have a workable business model, they have one thing in common: nothing they do is particularly irreplaceable. Movies, music and television are pretty obviously replaceable, and even most software would be replaceable if we had a genuine need. The other thing they have in common is that we'd probably be better off without them.
that's a typically reactionary response- how does a watermark make a produce defective?
It adds defects to the audio stream. A watermarked version does not look or sound the same as the original.
What does Britney Spears fucking Beethoven sound like anyway?
Well, I imagine that the foreplay involves her getting over the fact that she's locked in a coffin with a rotten corpse.
The chances you had of MRSA killing you in England and Wales, with everyone going mental over it, in 2005 - 1 in 32,000.
Chances of dying the same death in a country with market-driven health system, where people are NOT specifically looking for MRSA - 1 in 15,800.
You know, every drug approved in the US is FDA regulated, every medical school is government certified, every person pays taxes into Medicare, and most people get health care through insurance, which is virtually government run... The only "market-driven" aspect of US health care is that you can ignore it and pay cash if you want, so it's fairer to say the US is 95% regulated while the UK is 99%.
I'll let those numbers sink in. British readers might want to look at them again and make sure up is still up.
If my health care system "went nuts" over a disease and only got it down to half of the one that did nothing, yeah, I would want to make sure up is up.
This is either the longest and most researched Flaimbait ever to appear on SlashDot...
Not by a long shot.
Do I really need "anitbacterial" dishwashing liquid?
/concerned-parent
You don't but MY BABIES could get an INFECTION!
Support is built into Safari, and it is possible to set it up to log into a Windows domain, I believe.
I've done it with OS X 10.4, my military ID and the CAC reader they sell at the PX. No software to install, works with any application that supports Keychain. Works much better than Windows.
How many times do I have to keep telling people that security is more about the skill of the IT staff than it is about the operating system it runs on?
You know the old saw about how military intelligence is an oxymoron? Well, the same is true for S-6 Automations.
On a lark, I once asked one of our S-6 guys if he had ever automated anything. He looked at me blankly. Did not know what the word meant.
Oh, and S-6 and S-2 are two completely separate shops within HHC. I'm sure that, in theory, they coordinate and cross-train. Ours are on two different streets.
"Who is "they"? There is no "they". Its a staffer in the office of a single Representative (1 out of the total number of 435)."
Nope, it is they. Or strictly, that guy and me, because I work for the federal government and I've edited a few pages.
Karl Rove says my check's in the mail. Can you believe that guy?
De facto standard of the Web is Flash video and H.264 encapsulated in either FLV or MPEG 4 file formats.
/nitpicking
Flash video uses H.263.
The people who prey on the desperation inherent in this situation are among the worst kind of criminal. Their victims, while perhaps lacking some of the clarity of reasoning, are still purely victims.
Oh, please. The GP calls them worthless and stupid and you call them desperate victims which is just a nice way of saying worthless and stupid. Hell, you even went *beyond* him to say they're incapable of clear reasoning.
They're competent, educated adults living in a rich country with lots of social programs and plenty of information. They choose to screw up their lives and these con-artists are perfectly happy to help them along that path. They're wrong to screw up their lives (in so far as they tend to drag their families with them) just as these people are criminals for expediting it.
Frankly, you're contributing to this situation by glorifying victimhood. The fact is that just because you're dying of cancer doesn't mean you're any less responsible if you go to some faith-healer, and the cancer certainly isn't going to treat you any nicer. We wouldn't be having this discussion if people would stop finding any retarded excuse to abandon reason!
If you are pursing a fleeing suspect, the last thing you need is 200 pounds mounted on your roof. This would seriously affect the way the cop cruiser handles.
All these operations are coordinated. These things would be used in place of traditional roadblocks.
The police helicopter figures out where they're going, and calls for a truck, with the device mounted in the bed, to wait around a handy corner.
Fleeing suspect slows down to make a turn and his engine dies. There's no reason to use something like this in a high speed chase.
Why are so many databases still tabular today and not hierarchal?
Because we've tried the hierarchical model in all its iterations and it sucks. To specify integrity constraints, you have to use graph theory. And while certain modes of access work, ad hoc queries are painful. Normalizing your data is often impossible. If you can't make sure the data is what it's supposed to be, and you can't make sure you only have one copy of it (normalizing) and you can't run arbitrary queries, your DBMS sucks.
The only reason people keep going back to hierarchical models (such as XML) is because the tabular SQL structure is the only game in town. It's not: there is such a thing as the relational model, and SQL is even loosely based on it, but SQL DBMSs are only vaguely relational.
SELECT name FROM table WHERE key='xyz'; seems so archaic and limited compared to something PHP-like such as $table['xyz']['name'] where $table is a disk-based global variable accessible from all scripts and automatically synchronized at all times.
Shit, even in Access you can say DLookup("name", "table", "key='xyz'"). In PHP, how do you get a value from something *other* than the key? And how do you group by months and sum scores? Get the top 20% of something? If you answered "I iterated through the data set" for any of those, your DBMS sucks. If you can't take that result and use it as a table just like any other, your DBMS sucks.
Let's look at integrity: even in SQL, a foreign key constraint is as simple as "FOREIGN KEY foo (bar)". Show me the syntax to do that in a hierarchical database. In a relational database, it's *always* a to b. In a hierarchical database, you get to screw around with graph theory. (Note that with cyclic foreign keys, SQL will require carefully ordered inserts, this is a deficiency of SQL because the relational model proper allows for simultaneous inserts.)
I don't understand why anyone would actively attack them over not including this particular one.
People tried asking politely, and Google dismissed them in a rather arrogant manner. Then when they were further pressed, they gave contradictory explanations.
Google's a bit naive in thinking that little doodles that are transmitted to millions of people don't need to have a clear policy dictating their usage.
From a european view, the democrats are right wing, just a bit shy of being extreme right wing (neo-nazi). Republicans would come dangerously close to extreme right wing.
Bullshit. Europe is notably left of America, true, but they also have plenty of far-right groups that David Duke would be at home in. Just look at the debate over Muslim immigrants in European countries and the nakedly racist anti-immigrant sentiment it has stirred up. Contrast that with America where even immediately after 9/11 the president called for tolerance.
Everything that makes Europe a welfare state, massive taxation (especially the VAT), socialized health care, heavy union influence, no gun rights, are all things the Democrats would *love* to implement in the States.
Furthermore, Europe has heavily statist tendencies that neither party in America has called for, such as mandatory national IDs and secret police. All the things that policies like PATRIOT are supposedly doing in the States have been done in Europe for years. And while America has the death penalty, countries like France have a prison suicide rate that dwarfs even China's (per capita) use of the death penalty. At least the death penalty is subject to due process and public scrutiny!
You made your system work, we made our system work.
It broke down rather famously in Europe War I and Europe War II. And you're terrible neighbors.