Get 'em while they're hot--er, or before they melt?
Or, thanks to you, get to their page before the server reaches supercritical connection mass from the slashdotting and turns into a melted pool of plastic and silicon substrate leaking through the raised floor in the datacenter.
I know a good concrete guy that can put the sarcophagus over the datacenter if the place explodes...
Depends on the isotope. The really dangerous stuff has less of a half life. It's more dangerous because it's decaying faster.
Please don't say something is dangerous because it has a long half life. There is an iron isotope (Fe-60) out there that has a half life of 3x10^5 years, but the only way you are going to get hurt by it is if someone smacks you on the head with it.
In fact, of the two fissile Pu isotopes (Pu-239 and Pu-241), Pu-241 has a half-life of 14.4 years, meaning that it has probably decayed into something else by now (Americium 241?)
Gee, to think that in Dec. 1903 Orville and Wilbur Wright made their historic "flight," and then two years later (according to this theory) we had a jet capable of aerial photography at 55 THOUSAND FEET.
Memo to moderators: This is not offtopic. As a matter of fact, it is squarely ON topic, as this person is asking about the scope of the issue that this topic is about.
O.k so how will this affect anyone other than major ISP's that can really do anything about it?
So I guess it wouldn't affect anyone at all if it a couple backbones that depend on BGP to get packets from point A to point B just dropped off the Internet.
While I see where you are going with this, here is the flaw:
For mass adoption of Linux on the desktop, it needs to at least do what their current system can.
Everyone is saying that Linux is headed for the desktop, however if you install it and your stuff doesn't work, most people aren't going to start using cryptic commands on a CLI to figure it out. All they will think will be "this worked with Windows, and doesn't with this. Give me Windows back."
I would love to see Windows sweat under some competition as much as the next guy, and the whole market will benefit, but if some Linux distros can't get mainstream sound hardware* right, they are going to have a rough go at it.
*I have a Mac, and use Virtual PC** to do some x86 stuff. I have tried several Linux distros in an attempt to get an audio app working, and have not gotten SuSE 9.0 RedHat 7.2, or Mandrake 9.1 (these are what I had laying about) to successfully utilize the SoundBlaster emulation that Virtual PC does. Windows NT 4, 98 SE, 2000, and XP have no problems. I am installing Fedora right now to see if it does any better. I call this mainstream because it has been around for the better part of a decade, and every x86 platform since DOS > 5.0 has had a SoundBlaster 16 plugged into it at one point.
** I also don't want to hear about "Oh, Microsoft owns Virtual PC, that's why" because this is the Connectix version, as I don't install what is essentially what is a patched logo onto good software
However, you're single WinXP box at home is not costing thousands of dollars for every minute that it is down due to the latest virus parading around the Internet.
That is the situation lots of people that post here deal with, myself included. Sure it is great to have "security through obscurity" but if you lose that safety blanket of obscurity, you are bleeding money from systems that have to be operational for business to continue.
This is no different that having RAID 5 arrays for data redundancy, hot-swappable power supplies, and fail-over network links. If you have to be up, you do the due diligence to make it happen.
I guess what I'm saying here is that vendors withholding information about exploits and bugs makes for an inherently unuseable platform for highly available systems. These highly available systems are also the ones that have people that are PAID to have the time [or] the will to follow some security mailing-lists.
While the analogy of military strategy does bring up a point, this case is not strictly Apple -vs- little OSS developer guy.
This could possibly be a case to strike down the DMCA as the asinine piece of legislation that it is. However, because that battle will not be fought, the war cannot be won.
As you like military strategy analogies, who do you think would have been in power in Germany after WWII had it not been for Operation Overlord, or the North Africa / Italy campaign.
Not flaming here, just explaining the way I see it. These things could have outcomes that are deeper than what is on the surface.
Yes, the odds are against the individual in a case like this.
However, if the responsible party was to choose to fight, do you think the Free Software Foundation or someone with similar goals wouldn't help with the legal battle?
I honestly don't know, but I would imagine that Apple is concerned about this not because they want to make sure everything stays locked up for the sake of being locked up, but probably because they don't want the RIAA to yank their licenses and cause all of the iTMS to come crashing down.
Sure, you can make all the standard black helicopter and tinfoil hat jokes, but I really don't see how Apple would care about this, save the ramifications for keeping an amicable relationship with the RIAA pigopolists.
While the DMCA is a horrible piece of legislation, a business would not be doing their shareholders a favor if they didn't use it to protect their business. This is a standard move, everyone saw it coming; and to say that it is a dumb mistake is a bit myopic.
To do nothing would be a bigger mistake for Apple, for entirely different reasons.
I really love it when shills post things like this. Can we please see some documented facts to back any of this up?
Innovative? They didn't do jack with 3D until OpenGL came along and showed them how. They had to buy it from SGI. This has been documented.
Resilient? Dictionary.com defines this as "Marked by the ability to recover readily, as from misfortune." This is actually true, as they were behind, and had to play catch-up. 10 years later, they have caught up with (and arguably surpassed) a technology that has changed very little. Until now.
If this is what defines one who "rules," I'd rather that MSFT "rules" while other companies and organizations just make better stuff.
... or is this the perfect example of a solution looking for a problem? Most people taking pictures fall into the following three categories:
1. Taking pictures of live action, in which case they should be using a video medium (read: DV)
2. Taking pictures of things that don't move too much (read: Geographic or structural objects, or people that are actively participating in being photographed, posing, etc.)
3. Porn (which I imagine requires much more equipment, lighting, people, etc.)
In these three categories, we already have working solutions. This product doesn't offer massive advancement over what we already have, from what I can tell.
Yes, U235 has a half life of 17 million years give or take. However, one Iron isotope have a half life of 3.1 x 10^22 years. That is considerably longer. I've never heard of someone becoming ill or perishing from the radioactive decay of Iron.
Slashdot Mirror
Get 'em while they're hot--er, or before they melt?
Or, thanks to you, get to their page before the server reaches supercritical connection mass from the slashdotting and turns into a melted pool of plastic and silicon substrate leaking through the raised floor in the datacenter.
I know a good concrete guy that can put the sarcophagus over the datacenter if the place explodes...
It would be interesting to see an age breakdown of the lawsuits, in comparison to an age breakdown of people that download music illegally.
I would guess that illegal downloads are weighted heavily into the 18-26 demographic, and this might be the explanation.
Depends on the isotope. The really dangerous stuff has less of a half life. It's more dangerous because it's decaying faster.
Please don't say something is dangerous because it has a long half life. There is an iron isotope (Fe-60) out there that has a half life of 3x10^5 years, but the only way you are going to get hurt by it is if someone smacks you on the head with it.
In fact, of the two fissile Pu isotopes (Pu-239 and Pu-241), Pu-241 has a half-life of 14.4 years, meaning that it has probably decayed into something else by now (Americium 241?)
Gotta love Slashdot moderation!
If ever there was an article for one of those goatse guys to post something, THIS would be it.
I mean come on... stretch?
I need to die for posting this.
Are you seriously inviting a slashdotting of your server? Do you like pain? Have you tried therapy?!
In SOVIET RUSSIA the keys hand YOU over!
Gee, to think that in Dec. 1903 Orville and Wilbur Wright made their historic "flight," and then two years later (according to this theory) we had a jet capable of aerial photography at 55 THOUSAND FEET.
Grandparent: Score -1, Asinine
Memo to moderators: This is not offtopic. As a matter of fact, it is squarely ON topic, as this person is asking about the scope of the issue that this topic is about.
However, this rant IS offtopic. Kill me now.
Hey! He has an Italian typing accent, you insensitive clod!
Wow. That uninterrupted block of text hit so hard it set off my browser's airbag!
O.k so how will this affect anyone other than major ISP's that can really do anything about it?
So I guess it wouldn't affect anyone at all if it a couple backbones that depend on BGP to get packets from point A to point B just dropped off the Internet.
Nope, that won't affect anyone at all.
While I see where you are going with this, here is the flaw:
For mass adoption of Linux on the desktop, it needs to at least do what their current system can.
Everyone is saying that Linux is headed for the desktop, however if you install it and your stuff doesn't work, most people aren't going to start using cryptic commands on a CLI to figure it out. All they will think will be "this worked with Windows, and doesn't with this. Give me Windows back."
I would love to see Windows sweat under some competition as much as the next guy, and the whole market will benefit, but if some Linux distros can't get mainstream sound hardware* right, they are going to have a rough go at it.
*I have a Mac, and use Virtual PC** to do some x86 stuff. I have tried several Linux distros in an attempt to get an audio app working, and have not gotten SuSE 9.0 RedHat 7.2, or Mandrake 9.1 (these are what I had laying about) to successfully utilize the SoundBlaster emulation that Virtual PC does. Windows NT 4, 98 SE, 2000, and XP have no problems. I am installing Fedora right now to see if it does any better. I call this mainstream because it has been around for the better part of a decade, and every x86 platform since DOS > 5.0 has had a SoundBlaster 16 plugged into it at one point.
** I also don't want to hear about "Oh, Microsoft owns Virtual PC, that's why" because this is the Connectix version, as I don't install what is essentially what is a patched logo onto good software
"When they say the Universe is shaped like a trumpet, they mean literally like a trumpet."
So what happens when someone opens the spit valve and gives it a good blow? Do galaxies go spewing out?
In my asinine commenting, maybe I just stumbled upon something incredibly profound, but I'm not smart enough to realise it.
Yup. Definetly a Microsoft website. It doesn't work in Safari
However, you're single WinXP box at home is not costing thousands of dollars for every minute that it is down due to the latest virus parading around the Internet.
That is the situation lots of people that post here deal with, myself included. Sure it is great to have "security through obscurity" but if you lose that safety blanket of obscurity, you are bleeding money from systems that have to be operational for business to continue.
This is no different that having RAID 5 arrays for data redundancy, hot-swappable power supplies, and fail-over network links. If you have to be up, you do the due diligence to make it happen.
I guess what I'm saying here is that vendors withholding information about exploits and bugs makes for an inherently unuseable platform for highly available systems. These highly available systems are also the ones that have people that are PAID to have the time [or] the will to follow some security mailing-lists.
While the analogy of military strategy does bring up a point, this case is not strictly Apple -vs- little OSS developer guy.
This could possibly be a case to strike down the DMCA as the asinine piece of legislation that it is. However, because that battle will not be fought, the war cannot be won.
As you like military strategy analogies, who do you think would have been in power in Germany after WWII had it not been for Operation Overlord, or the North Africa / Italy campaign.
Not flaming here, just explaining the way I see it. These things could have outcomes that are deeper than what is on the surface.
Yes, the odds are against the individual in a case like this.
However, if the responsible party was to choose to fight, do you think the Free Software Foundation or someone with similar goals wouldn't help with the legal battle?
He could have at least asked.
"Now that Apple has publicly sided against freedom"
Since when is Apple protecting their and others' copywrited works that they DID NOT RELEASE AS FREE (as in speech) SOFTWARE siding against freedom?
Maybe you can explain that, as I don't understand.
I honestly don't know, but I would imagine that Apple is concerned about this not because they want to make sure everything stays locked up for the sake of being locked up, but probably because they don't want the RIAA to yank their licenses and cause all of the iTMS to come crashing down.
Sure, you can make all the standard black helicopter and tinfoil hat jokes, but I really don't see how Apple would care about this, save the ramifications for keeping an amicable relationship with the RIAA pigopolists.
While the DMCA is a horrible piece of legislation, a business would not be doing their shareholders a favor if they didn't use it to protect their business. This is a standard move, everyone saw it coming; and to say that it is a dumb mistake is a bit myopic.
To do nothing would be a bigger mistake for Apple, for entirely different reasons.
I really love it when shills post things like this. Can we please see some documented facts to back any of this up?
Innovative? They didn't do jack with 3D until OpenGL came along and showed them how. They had to buy it from SGI. This has been documented.
Resilient? Dictionary.com defines this as "Marked by the ability to recover readily, as from misfortune." This is actually true, as they were behind, and had to play catch-up. 10 years later, they have caught up with (and arguably surpassed) a technology that has changed very little. Until now.
If this is what defines one who "rules," I'd rather that MSFT "rules" while other companies and organizations just make better stuff.
... or is this the perfect example of a solution looking for a problem? Most people taking pictures fall into the following three categories:
1. Taking pictures of live action, in which case they should be using a video medium (read: DV)
2. Taking pictures of things that don't move too much (read: Geographic or structural objects, or people that are actively participating in being photographed, posing, etc.)
3. Porn (which I imagine requires much more equipment, lighting, people, etc.)
In these three categories, we already have working solutions. This product doesn't offer massive advancement over what we already have, from what I can tell.
Yes, U235 has a half life of 17 million years give or take. However, one Iron isotope have a half life of 3.1 x 10^22 years. That is considerably longer. I've never heard of someone becoming ill or perishing from the radioactive decay of Iron.
Animal cruely must continue for the following to work:
1. Club baby seal
2. ???
3. Oil!
Please don't mod this informative.
You didn't expect moderators to actually READ the post; much less THINK did you?
You must be new here...
Oh, and dollars to donuts says that the same moderators I just talked about are now going to bomb my karma into oblivion.