I did RTFA now, and it says they didn't find any encrypted files on his computer. So they are in fact holding the existence of PGP on his computer against him. That's like saying "You have a safe, but we opened it and found nothing inside. But it suggests that you have something to hide."
"However, if you have other evidence that a person possesses child pornography, the information that the person uses encryption software becomes relevant, in that it provides a legitimate explanation of why the offending material cannot be found."
If you don't have the offending material, you don't really have a case do you? Oh, but in this type of case you may have a kid testifying, and then a refusal to provide the decryption key looks pretty bad. OTOH, how bad does it look when someone reserves their right to not testify under the 5th amendment? It doesn't mean their guilty, but most people would hold it against them at least a little. So did this guy hand over the keys or is he keeping a secret? If he hands over the keys then there isn't any reason for their existence to suggest anything. Time for me to RTFA:-)
As I recall, nVidia chips (soon or now?) will have HDTV output. That is, there will be an encoder on the chip so you can output directly to an HDTV. If they provide a way to send the bits back to the CPU, you could just use the video card as an encoder. OTOH that would be an MPEG-2 stream. How about writing a custom encoder to run on a GPU?
The first problem is a lack of 720p cameras of any sort other than very high end. I've been waiting several years now for a HD video camera under $1000.
"There's a lot of fundamental research that needs to be done in order to make permanent space habitation possible."
You're one of those people in analysis paralysis. There are plenty of those around, what we need is people who like to take some risks and DO things. Structures? Go to the moon and start digging in the rock. Line it with some sort of air-tight "stuff". This way, they can always dig out new living quarters - and the more you work, the bigger your house! Plants that can provide food and reproduce in low-G... Hmmm if NASA hasn't identified these yet with all their years in space we should be shutting the whole organization down, not just the station.
I think you're right that public corporations won't do it on their own, but rich guys seem to be getting interested in space now. It's one of the few big things left to get into the history books (things of the "establish a colony off the earth" magnitude).
Maybe the semiconductor industry will go. A good floor and a little dust canopy and the moon is a great big clean room - nothing floating in the air. Need low pressure for CVD or something? Just go out back and fire up some plasma. Why do some people make everything seem so hard?;-)
"I suspect that the only way to get a permanent presence off planet is through private efforts"
More importantly, the only way to have a permanent presence off the planet is for it to be a self-sustaining presence. It needs to be on the moon (or any large solid body) so the inhabitants can expand their own space. Send construction workers, not scientists. Once there is enough there that people don't need to worry about things like food, water, air - then it could become a useful place to send people and do research.
And he'll just append it to the next bill to fund the troops or fight terrorism and it'll go through for sure.
It's called a fork stupid.
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"Is an unrealized danger of OSS that others may take your project in a direction you didn't intend?"
If you didn't realize that's possible, you're just being stupid. If they're going in a direction you don't intend, then by all means continue in the direction you DO intend and don't worry about it. Would it be nice if Apple maintained a set of OSX specific patches and did as much as possible in the upstream project? Yes. Do they have to? No. Will it bite them in the future? Perhaps. The farther they diverge, the harder it will be to bring changes the other direction as well.
"The BitKeeper issue is different entirely; it was a commercial product being offered for free, with the possibility that it could be yanked out from under them at any time."
Just what makes you think Sun won't start charging for JAVA at some point? It's exactly the same thing except there isn't currently a commercial version - they'll just drop the free one and make it commercial only.
"Java VMs exist for pretty much every known architecture"
There is no 64bit JVM for my AMD processor. This means I can't run OOo on a pure 64bit OS. Abiword and Gnumeric don't have this problem.
And yes, Stallman is a bit obsessive about all this, but that doesn't invalidate his central point. Bitkeeper is irrelevant, but if/when the same thing happens with Java the rest of you will finally understand what RMS point is exactly.
"removing EVERY court's jurisdiction to hear a case involving decisions made by the Secretary of Homeland Security"
Wouldn't that law be unconstitutional? I'm not sure, but it seems like one branch exerting direct control over another. Why not just abolish the judicial branch and create some other court system controlled by the president then? I'd think judges are not really happy about this one.
"Does anyone know of links to good information that covers all, or at least most, of the known relevant facts surrounding this issue in the U.S.?"
Some people would argue - and I'm tempted to agree - that one only needs to look at unemployment rates for various professions. From what I've heard, engineers (CS included) are near the highest levels of unemployment in the US right now. Sorry, I don't have a link.
The big companies want the education system to produce even more of these people so the wages will go down to the level they pay for H1B people or lower. They would prefer to hire local talent, just not at the current local prices.
Me? If I find there aren't any more good paying tech jobs I'm switching to something else. If they wanted to pay me 1/2 as much, I could easily do something else for the money with less grief. And that's exactly why we won't be seeing that flood of cheap, well educated, homegrown programming talent any time soon.
"They don't care. Now that they've spent the money to implement it, it's all the same to them."
When their competitor takes the 5 minutes to disable the flag and starts selling more product, they'll all disable it. Once it's not mandatory or costly (+R vs -R) the market will actually influence manufacturers - especially when it's as simple as ignoring a flag.
The project list includes GNome? They may have contributed something, but what? There's something for using X with Solaris. There's a bunch of things I never heard of. And finally, half of it is dependant on JAVA - not libre or even open source. I had a great deal of appreciation for OOo last year, but they're really rolling in the JAVA dependancies lately. And besides, the license for Open Solaris really honestly doesn't let you use it for anything but contributing to them - no forks, no lifting nice pieces to put into your own projects. I'm not trolling, I'm flaming. Please at least mod me down for the right reason;-)
Because their license doesn't allow you to take the code and use it for other projects. A chunk of Solaris isn't worth crap then without the whole thing.
It may be open source - you can see the source - but it isn't really good for anything but getting free labor to work on Solaris. At least that's what I've read on/. and Groklaw. I'd guess they can't release source until they hide all the good stuff in a way that they can easily patch it back in on the closed source side.
IMHO sun is not a friend of free software or even plain open source.
I've been wondering if AMD64x2 can be supported in Linux without a BIOS upgrade. I've got a Shuttle SN95G5 that I'd really like to drop a dualie into next year, but I'm not sure Shuttle will support it - and if they do I'll need Windoze to run the upgrade. Since Linux ignores a lot of BIOS functionality, will my box "just work" with a dual core running Linux?
I see 2.6.12rc3 has "full support", but what does that mean to me?
"OSS has no greater chance of being the target of a patent, or copyright, lawsuit than closed source software."
Replace "closed source software" with Microsoft software. Now consider what happens when MS violates someones patent - MS buys them and the issue goes away. Now who has a greater chance of being a target? Sorry, just playing devils advocate here.
So they have more literate people than in the US (52% of over 1Billion people). Their per-capita taxes are lower, but there are more people and the people developing the stuff are paid india wages. Doesn't sound like a financial problem to me...
It just occured to me that when one company pays, that just provides additional resources to the extortionists. Could that be considered a crime? Providing financial support to a criminal enterprise or some such? If a competitor has paid and then they come for you, can you sue your competitor? I know, I know, nobody tells when they pay, but in principle could it be treated this way?
" therefore need electrode contact with the fluid at right angles to the magnetic field."
No offense, but that's not true. You can wrap a series of coils along the length of a pipe in a 3 phase configuration (i.e. ABCABCABCABC). There should also be a ferrous material between each phase to help the field get into the pipe radially. It also helps to run a ferrous rod down the middle of the pipe (liquid all around it) to help pull the flux in. By applying a 3-phase current in the phases, you induce circular currents in the fluid while also producing some radial magnetic flux. This results in pushing the fluid down the pipe. It's similar to an induction motor. The field moves down the length of the pipe - one set of coils per cycle and there is slip between that speed and the fluid velocity. The best part is that you can select any non-magnetic material that won't react with the fluid to make the pipe and coat the core rod.
I recall reading about a nuclear power plant that used one of these to pump liquid sodium coolant for several decades without maintenance for the pump. Why would it need maintenance? It's just a bunch of coils. And the efficiency of a pump isn't much concern when you're attached to a power plant;-)
Because the system was in fact working, and there was no way for him to know about 16bit values being used in the software. It was a latent problem that would not degrade over time, it just completely broke one day.
Perhaps the docs for the software would indicate this problem. Did anyone RTFM at Comair?
I bought my PC and all it's innards from newegg. Well, actually the XPC case went out of stock while I was deciding. I purchased everything else from newegg and got the SFF case from mwave. Of course newegg had the item in stock the next day. Funny how easy it is to just go somewhere else rather than wait, especially after leaving my shopping cart there for a few days making them wait;-)
And with a conductive fluid you can use an MHD (magnetohydrodynamic) pump - i.e. a couple magnets and some electrodes in the liquid metal. Or there are non-contact inductive versions that are more complex.
How toxic is this "Galinstan" compared to mercury?
Companies knowingly in violation of the GPL seem to view it like this: "We can use this code for free and violate the license, and if we get caught they might make us comply with it". Most previous enforcement actions enforce this view.
Stop making them comply with the license. Sue them for copyright infringement and put them out of business. This is a consequence that companies can understand.
Better make damn sure they are in violation first. It would be nice to ask them to comply first rather than going straight to court - then you can go once they've knowingly violated the license.
In this case, someone mentioned that the GPLed code may not actually be linked so they may be in compliance. I had considered that before - there are other ways to inter-operate with a piece of software without linking (make it a server, use pipes, etc...) and these modifications are entirely possible when you have source code. Just release the modified "server" source and sell your closed source app that uses it. This shouldn't cause outrage, if you want the app to be open source, write one.
Actually it's more like 3 to 4 times. Since the server room is cooled by a heat pump (refrigerator) and not by convection (blowing the heat out and replacing it with fresh outside air). The heatpump is only ~30% efficient. i.e. it takes 3 joules of energy to remove 1 joule from the room. That means 1W for the PC and 3 more to remove the heat. The same goes for anything (lights etc) you leave on in your house with the air conditioning on. You'd think big servers would all be moving to the northern states or to Canada;-) Or in Europe, up there to Sweeden.
"IMO, this "explanation" was created by apologists..."
That's one problem right there. Your (and my) opinion is irrelevant. I want to know what the original said, and the wiki article claims that the original hebrew word means "murder" and is definitely distinct from the word for "kill". Of all people, religious folks should know best that truth exists independant of what someone may believe. In this case, the original text is available in the original language - which is understood by some people (not me). I just wanted to know if anyone has collected the facts for cases like this.
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I did RTFA now, and it says they didn't find any encrypted files on his computer. So they are in fact holding the existence of PGP on his computer against him. That's like saying "You have a safe, but we opened it and found nothing inside. But it suggests that you have something to hide."
If you don't have the offending material, you don't really have a case do you? Oh, but in this type of case you may have a kid testifying, and then a refusal to provide the decryption key looks pretty bad. OTOH, how bad does it look when someone reserves their right to not testify under the 5th amendment? It doesn't mean their guilty, but most people would hold it against them at least a little. So did this guy hand over the keys or is he keeping a secret? If he hands over the keys then there isn't any reason for their existence to suggest anything. Time for me to RTFA :-)
Yeah, but they need Media Player. Herring indeed...
The first problem is a lack of 720p cameras of any sort other than very high end. I've been waiting several years now for a HD video camera under $1000.
You're one of those people in analysis paralysis. There are plenty of those around, what we need is people who like to take some risks and DO things. Structures? Go to the moon and start digging in the rock. Line it with some sort of air-tight "stuff". This way, they can always dig out new living quarters - and the more you work, the bigger your house! Plants that can provide food and reproduce in low-G... Hmmm if NASA hasn't identified these yet with all their years in space we should be shutting the whole organization down, not just the station.
I think you're right that public corporations won't do it on their own, but rich guys seem to be getting interested in space now. It's one of the few big things left to get into the history books (things of the "establish a colony off the earth" magnitude).
Maybe the semiconductor industry will go. A good floor and a little dust canopy and the moon is a great big clean room - nothing floating in the air. Need low pressure for CVD or something? Just go out back and fire up some plasma. Why do some people make everything seem so hard? ;-)
More importantly, the only way to have a permanent presence off the planet is for it to be a self-sustaining presence. It needs to be on the moon (or any large solid body) so the inhabitants can expand their own space. Send construction workers, not scientists. Once there is enough there that people don't need to worry about things like food, water, air - then it could become a useful place to send people and do research.
And he'll just append it to the next bill to fund the troops or fight terrorism and it'll go through for sure.
If you didn't realize that's possible, you're just being stupid. If they're going in a direction you don't intend, then by all means continue in the direction you DO intend and don't worry about it. Would it be nice if Apple maintained a set of OSX specific patches and did as much as possible in the upstream project? Yes. Do they have to? No. Will it bite them in the future? Perhaps. The farther they diverge, the harder it will be to bring changes the other direction as well.
Just what makes you think Sun won't start charging for JAVA at some point? It's exactly the same thing except there isn't currently a commercial version - they'll just drop the free one and make it commercial only.
"Java VMs exist for pretty much every known architecture"
There is no 64bit JVM for my AMD processor. This means I can't run OOo on a pure 64bit OS. Abiword and Gnumeric don't have this problem.
And yes, Stallman is a bit obsessive about all this, but that doesn't invalidate his central point. Bitkeeper is irrelevant, but if/when the same thing happens with Java the rest of you will finally understand what RMS point is exactly.
Wouldn't that law be unconstitutional? I'm not sure, but it seems like one branch exerting direct control over another. Why not just abolish the judicial branch and create some other court system controlled by the president then? I'd think judges are not really happy about this one.
Some people would argue - and I'm tempted to agree - that one only needs to look at unemployment rates for various professions. From what I've heard, engineers (CS included) are near the highest levels of unemployment in the US right now. Sorry, I don't have a link.
The big companies want the education system to produce even more of these people so the wages will go down to the level they pay for H1B people or lower. They would prefer to hire local talent, just not at the current local prices.
Me? If I find there aren't any more good paying tech jobs I'm switching to something else. If they wanted to pay me 1/2 as much, I could easily do something else for the money with less grief. And that's exactly why we won't be seeing that flood of cheap, well educated, homegrown programming talent any time soon.
When their competitor takes the 5 minutes to disable the flag and starts selling more product, they'll all disable it. Once it's not mandatory or costly (+R vs -R) the market will actually influence manufacturers - especially when it's as simple as ignoring a flag.
The project list includes GNome? They may have contributed something, but what? There's something for using X with Solaris. There's a bunch of things I never heard of. And finally, half of it is dependant on JAVA - not libre or even open source. I had a great deal of appreciation for OOo last year, but they're really rolling in the JAVA dependancies lately. And besides, the license for Open Solaris really honestly doesn't let you use it for anything but contributing to them - no forks, no lifting nice pieces to put into your own projects. I'm not trolling, I'm flaming. Please at least mod me down for the right reason ;-)
It may be open source - you can see the source - but it isn't really good for anything but getting free labor to work on Solaris. At least that's what I've read on /. and Groklaw. I'd guess they can't release source until they hide all the good stuff in a way that they can easily patch it back in on the closed source side.
IMHO sun is not a friend of free software or even plain open source.
I see 2.6.12rc3 has "full support", but what does that mean to me?
Replace "closed source software" with Microsoft software. Now consider what happens when MS violates someones patent - MS buys them and the issue goes away. Now who has a greater chance of being a target? Sorry, just playing devils advocate here.
So they have more literate people than in the US (52% of over 1Billion people). Their per-capita taxes are lower, but there are more people and the people developing the stuff are paid india wages. Doesn't sound like a financial problem to me...
It just occured to me that when one company pays, that just provides additional resources to the extortionists. Could that be considered a crime? Providing financial support to a criminal enterprise or some such? If a competitor has paid and then they come for you, can you sue your competitor? I know, I know, nobody tells when they pay, but in principle could it be treated this way?
No offense, but that's not true. You can wrap a series of coils along the length of a pipe in a 3 phase configuration (i.e. ABCABCABCABC). There should also be a ferrous material between each phase to help the field get into the pipe radially. It also helps to run a ferrous rod down the middle of the pipe (liquid all around it) to help pull the flux in. By applying a 3-phase current in the phases, you induce circular currents in the fluid while also producing some radial magnetic flux. This results in pushing the fluid down the pipe. It's similar to an induction motor. The field moves down the length of the pipe - one set of coils per cycle and there is slip between that speed and the fluid velocity. The best part is that you can select any non-magnetic material that won't react with the fluid to make the pipe and coat the core rod.
I recall reading about a nuclear power plant that used one of these to pump liquid sodium coolant for several decades without maintenance for the pump. Why would it need maintenance? It's just a bunch of coils. And the efficiency of a pump isn't much concern when you're attached to a power plant ;-)
Perhaps the docs for the software would indicate this problem. Did anyone RTFM at Comair?
I bought my PC and all it's innards from newegg. Well, actually the XPC case went out of stock while I was deciding. I purchased everything else from newegg and got the SFF case from mwave. Of course newegg had the item in stock the next day. Funny how easy it is to just go somewhere else rather than wait, especially after leaving my shopping cart there for a few days making them wait ;-)
How toxic is this "Galinstan" compared to mercury?
Stop making them comply with the license. Sue them for copyright infringement and put them out of business. This is a consequence that companies can understand.
Better make damn sure they are in violation first. It would be nice to ask them to comply first rather than going straight to court - then you can go once they've knowingly violated the license.
In this case, someone mentioned that the GPLed code may not actually be linked so they may be in compliance. I had considered that before - there are other ways to inter-operate with a piece of software without linking (make it a server, use pipes, etc...) and these modifications are entirely possible when you have source code. Just release the modified "server" source and sell your closed source app that uses it. This shouldn't cause outrage, if you want the app to be open source, write one.
Actually it's more like 3 to 4 times. Since the server room is cooled by a heat pump (refrigerator) and not by convection (blowing the heat out and replacing it with fresh outside air). The heatpump is only ~30% efficient. i.e. it takes 3 joules of energy to remove 1 joule from the room. That means 1W for the PC and 3 more to remove the heat. The same goes for anything (lights etc) you leave on in your house with the air conditioning on. You'd think big servers would all be moving to the northern states or to Canada ;-) Or in Europe, up there to Sweeden.
That's one problem right there. Your (and my) opinion is irrelevant. I want to know what the original said, and the wiki article claims that the original hebrew word means "murder" and is definitely distinct from the word for "kill". Of all people, religious folks should know best that truth exists independant of what someone may believe. In this case, the original text is available in the original language - which is understood by some people (not me). I just wanted to know if anyone has collected the facts for cases like this.