Apple has a marvelous idea, but seem to be the only ones using it.
I agree. However I remember that Apple also patented the discussed DC jack, and doesn't probably want to license it for less than 100% of your laptop's price.
... at least back in the days i was amazed how deep you could bury the int main() {}.
i think that the best one would (regardless of the source code qualities) an open source application that does something you are really interested in, or just find a simple usability problem or a simple bug.
then post your bugreport up on their tracker/mailinglist and offer to help with a patch with a little bit of help.
even if you don't manage to implement it, you might come up with a test case or at least discussion which will help you and the project. during the implementation attempt and/or testcase bulding you will most likely grep through a lot of code, commit logs and comments and might be able to implement your next idea.
if you are not familiar with the project's tools, you will be "wasting" a lot of time learning those while building a testcase/implementation attempt. that time you'll save during your next idea.
remember to start with small ideas. of course selecting a project that is both alive and non-hostile might be a good starting point as well.
Lets face it; either you do WebGL or you do some Microsoft Silverlight Direct3D mambojambo it does not matter. As long as it touches something and even possibly uses data from somewhere it's a security risk. And this applies to everything.
However, given the open nature of WebGL compared to some Microsoft closed-source solution, static/runtime analysis tools can be developed (and integrated) in WebGL implementations to lower the risk, the standard (or what ever we call it) can be changed so that more dangerious things are disallowed (or for example to the screenshot thingy Mozilla has right now, limited), where as with Microrsoft you just pretty much hope that it will not go sideways, and that they will not later on screw it up with updates.
Plus, WebGL is cross-platform by design, which is the number one downside for Microsoft. Still, I can't believe they are still going down this path... Wasn't Ballmer already fired or was that just hearsay? Also, it'd sound really strange if you couldn't adapt GL paths to Direct3D, as Wine is already doing the same other way around, and AFAIK succeeding [in small steps].
It's received through participating in open source project(s). A few things look as good as this; just link to your github or the most notorious bugs you've squashed from your resume and you'll be noticed. Plus you might even make good friends with like minded people and or get a call to work for a company developing a solution on top of your favourite open source project!
Last I checked MONO was aiming to deliver.NET to Linux..NET (platform) patents scare people, not patents regarding the language specification. I guess you can patent anything in USA and sue on ever more in Texas, but I do not think that the language specification contains anything patentable.
Have you read the patent statement? It says:
Microsoft Corporation will grant, [..] licenses on commericially reasonable terms and conditions, for its patent(s), [...] for the implementation of the Ecma Standard.
So, until you have Microsoft releasing GPL (w/ classpath or whatever assemblies you use on.NET exception) or LGPL code that compiles under Linux you really shouldn't be using it.
While I think everyone can be look up Apple for product "just working [out of the box]" I think that's where it ends at Canonical. They must realize that if they continue to push their Ubuntu One and such services too hard, they will lose developers and then after few releases later users to other distributions.
Then again, I have nothing against them for "value-adding options", as long as those are "options" and do not make Ubuntu become the next Nokia Ovi (think about their [Windows] application for a few seconds -- horrible or the fact that most functions on my N8 require or prompt Ovi user account, and that bloody piece of sh*t can't care to remember my password anymore).
I still think that Canonical has had a great and good influence on Linux [distribution] community as whole and their investment on UI and system level innovation and new projects has helped the desktop usage. And I'm not saying this to undermine contributions by for example Red Hat or any single open source developer person -- just that to my knowledge, Canonical has not been around for too long to step into the big influencers/innovators club. Also, the more big names (and directions) we have as long as they are working together as well as possible, it's all good (freedesktop.org, etc.).
Sounds like any perfectly legit multinational corporation with too much marketshare just keeping "the competetive egde". Does this make anyone else remember Major General Smedley Butler, USMC's words?
This is way beyond sad. The last thing IT world needs are extraditions, even if the guy was quilty of the charges. If it takes 10 months to gather (make up) evidence, that makes me think he is innocent. I wonder how they are going to get anything posted as valid evidence, or are the separate laws for evidence against US nationals and foreigners? Thankfully the canadians seem to behave rationally most of the time, from what I've read.
I'm not a fan of cloud buzzword, but could slashdotters take a second to read that this code has been released on APL license? APL license, you know, apache?
This is a great development and its nice to see what the buying of SpringSource has already put in motion in VMWare. As pointed by others, this will be a good competitor to GAE, AWS and to whatever Microsoft is pushing.
Even I might be interested in this, in private cloud sense at least; perhaps it would be the easiest way to horizontally scale our software. We'll see.
Of course I didn't RTFA but we've had discussion about this kind of thing in Finland recently related to the new nuclear plant construction site and the worker benefit/paycheck violations made by sub-sub-sub-sub-subcontractors. AFAIK in Finland the buyer [of services] should already be responsible for that the contractor she grants a job to is playing by the law.
It's only reasonable that sub-contractors using pirated software would be regarded as the contractor using pirated software, as you can most likely assume that sub-contractor has lower operating costs because they use illegally obtained software, thus possibly lowering the costs of their job for the contractor.
Now, if someone would dare to pursue worker rights in the same fashion *ducks*:) And the other away around, this software/illegal activities by contractors should be reflected upon the buyer in all around fashion, at least to some reasonable extent of requiring the buyer to monitor and react to detected anomalies..
How do you confuse DDOS with violence? Attack is just a word I think you can attack in a debate as well.
I'd say that voluntary DDOS is more like a rally in front of a shop, for example animal right activists protesting in front of a fur-clothing store. It will turn down some customers but not in the way a DDOS does that. End result is mostly similar.
However I believe that Amazon might be the first one that might actually get some financial backslash over this compared to Mastercard and Visa which probably are not in the most visited websites, whereas S3 powers many and Amazon seems to have a lot of (American) customers.
You'd think INDIE film makers like the mastermind Uwe Boll would be delighted to have someone watching their shit, not suing for it — they sure as hell are not selling their products [to me] either nor can I rent them anywhere.
How good business model it is to produce something, only sell/make it available to very limited crowd and then start suing when someone is interested enough in your production to hunt it down online? I'd set up a "support us by buying a license for your downloaded film," for any sum. I'd at least would like to see a film maker do this once and publish the results.
I bet in EU you could even get some public funds for trial like the one described above. Or more specifically, even more public funding.
If this'll make Monty STFU and end his grief, then I'm all for it.
I just don't understand why not PostgreSQL, could someone explain why is mysql better when you provide simple hosting plans? PostgreSQL does seem to have an edge as a RDBMS, so are mysql databases more manageable per user or what's the reason?
Perhaps you were trying to spell out OpenJDK or Apache Harmony. GCJ is not... exactly the way to go -- it might had seem like it was before hotspot, but not anymore. I'd never run any of my java code on other than vm because of all the online optimization support.
I've bashed Vista and agree with almost everything I've read about it for the single reason; I've experienced all that myself.
I wasn't an early adopter -- my first experience was with my laptop, which I bought before SP1. Horrible startup times, and even though I've taken out all the desktop effects and updated everything it still simply sucks.
Kubuntu on the otherhand simply worked immediatedly after I installed it, much snappier and no IO problems (Vista SP2 still hangs when copying files). With the 9.04 I finally got very fast desktop effects that still enable the desktop to be faster than Vistas (without any effects).
Now days even ACPI sleep/hibernate work well in both operating systems.
I only keep Vista around to enable myself HP's bios/firmware upgrades; there's not even a remote possibility of being able to work with Eclipse in Vista -- not that it's fun in Kubuntu, but the times I need it, it'll do.
To get back to replying to you; Vista hasn't done any progress compared to Kubuntu. Perhaps Windows 7 finally fixes everything (copying files etc.) but I still think I should be getting it for free as an SP it really is; don't really care for the UI or DirectX side. I'm glad I only paid "the microsoft tax" with my laptop, imagine what the people who actually bought a license must feel..
Go and demand your gsm subscriptions and your mobiles separately.
Easy as that. Unless you are already past the point when there are only these mega corporations (Verizon + AT&T) selling you what ever bigger companies want.
Buy Nokia:) (The cheapest ones, you don't get angry when destroy the damn thing next friday when you're drunk! You don't really need all those fancy features, you just want to make a call, send an sms and every phone can run Opera Mini)
UAVs are to detect hostiles, observe movements (spying if you will) and perhaps engage them. You can't really use the UAV information to kill the ones benefiting from it -- unless someone is stupid enough to observe/admire their own camp from an UAV, which at wartime sounds pretty stupid. As an opposing force member you could see yourself in it's video feed, or gain information that you are not. That information can however be gained other ways too; for example:
If the other side knows about you, and have assessed you as a significant threat, they will take action. Nevertheless, you must be prepared to be taken action upon; it's not like any trained militia is going to party high until they are certain they are going to get hit, they'll always keep high alertness. With the modern UAV's carrying air-to-ground missiles you really can't move your terrorist training camp out of the way before UAV operator gets permission to blow you up, even if you knew that they had just learned about you -- there just is not enough time.
If the other side doesn't know about you, they can't take any straight action against you. Simple as that.
Information sent by this UAV becomes a problem if it's decode able by the opposing forces while it's landing to or taking off from the airforce base. Then again, there cannot be too much to learn from there. As an opposing force member you most likely already have information (googled up perhaps) about their airforce base, the kind of security they have behind their lines. If someone was decoding your UAV transmissions to learn about your airbase, you'll most likely been already compromised as they ought to be in the visual range as well.
Of course this is mostly from army point of view, intelligence gathering can't be stupid enough transmitting anything unencrypted/unobfuscated.
I do not think that the problem lies in use of C/C++, but in the horrible way of using it. From what I've gathered around the Internet "why win32 is great" is that they lacked any kind of stable way of creating their (old?) APIs; everyone just created a new standard for return values and parameter handling. And on top of that some crazy macros that make Symbian code look readable in comparison.
I mean, I've only learned how to program in C/C++ (at university) but been working as a Java dev for quite some time now. Still I can almost make sense of mplayer's or ffmpeg's source code but every time I see some "Windows" C++ it's just plain awful because of all the macros and #define constants. If you ever read KDE's or Qt's sources and compare those to something done with win32... There is a massive difference.
I think a quote from my favourite mini-tv-series "Generation Kill" works well in almost any discussion about "why army X does thing Y like Z when it would be the best to do it like A":
4. Effect upon economic exploitation of the work - would seem to go against file-sharers. Obviously they aren't buying it! And by sharing it, they may be hurting the owner's ability to sell it, etc.
IANAL but didn't every *AA just have a record year (again), despite of the general downturn? They can blame it on "movies inspiring people when they are poor" but I'm not buying that.
At least my consuming habits have gone up since P2P; I buy the tv-series I watch (if or when they ever are released where I live) and buy the movies I enjoyed watching. Actually I just bought a book too, on which a movie was based.
For every new PC (w/ Vista) we buy I instruct their new owners to start getting used to OpenOffice and if necessary, use the Office trial they bundle with it again, only if necessary.
So far I've had 100% (2/2 yei!) success with converting co-workers from Office to OpenOffice. Perhaps the transition from XP to Vista helps with Office to OpenOffice at the same time.. At least the new ribbon interface is so strange to some people that it seems to scare people off.
Small print: these guys were not programmers or writers and only do simple tasks; they most likely had never even (nor will learn in the future) learned how to use styles with word processor.
But... since I'm an American.... I would rather let the people go to these sites, determine who is getting their jollies off looking at this stuff, and then let's round up all these sick f--- people and kill them.
That thought has occurred to me as well. Why block these sites when you could presumably get warrants to see who is going to them and actually investigate the people breaking the law instead of trying to impose a censorship scheme that will never work anyway?
Two greatest ideas of the century.
I wonder why not instead blocking these sites officials would attempt to co-operate internationally to hunt down the child abusers?
Sounds like there could be higher chance of random "normal" (as in not-interested-in-children-in-that-way) person seeing some child porn while hunting for his/her kind of free porn from the Internet compared to the chance of someone "just happening to produce child porn and putting it up on the Internet."
In your model the "random normal person" would be thrown to the jail, child abusers getting thanked by the police for giving them yet another sick person stumbling on their site.
What all this boils down to is the politicians thinking that closing their eyes makes the problem go away. The Police officials must know that is not the right way; but they do not have a choice.
What if you just bought 8GB ram, or is 64-bit system out of question?
Having worked with eclipse for the past year with mid-level pc (some core2 duo with 32-bit linux, 2GB ram, basic SATA hd) I've been thinking that maximizing the available ram would have the same benefits than SSD in the best scenario (regarding the performance penalty reported in./ not long ago) and possibly be even a better choice in the long run...
I do not think TPB is about theft.. Or at least that's not what made it so popular, here's the real deal:
People, in this case, young people who know how to use the Internet got a thought they want to watch the same movies/tv-shows premiering in the USA allaround the world
People search for a legal alternative, which in this case was and still is: wait. There's a chance you can in next N months:
Go watch the movie in theaters, if movie is a blockbuster (N < 12)
Go rent the movie, if movie is a blockbuster (Ntheater + [1, 6])
Hope that your local TV-channel airs the show (N > 12)
Hope that you can one day buy the show on your region DVD (N > 18), region 1 (N > 24)*
With this new cool Internet, where news about everything travels at lightspeed, and stuff gets old faster than yesterdays newspaper, people want to see their films now, not in 12 months.
* It's not legal to watch Region 1 DVD's where I live, as I live in Europe. Alas, not even watching DVD's under linux is legal here anymore.
I at least, have contacted for example Fox, on how to view some of their series legally from here, but they didn't even bother. That sends a clear message to me that it's ok to download 24 from bittorrent, hell they do not even want my money, I doubt they are going to sue me if they do not want to make a deal in the first place.
I doubt that it will much of an issue. Having anywhere between 10-100Mbps (up&down) up to what ever and making it really work at that level like a charm will open up a lot of potential to people spreading up around the country and creating jobs as they slowly spread..
I'd work from home, and even better I'd like to move over to a bit more rural area only if I could get a 10Mbit line up there.
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I agree. However I remember that Apple also patented the discussed DC jack, and doesn't probably want to license it for less than 100% of your laptop's price.
... at least back in the days i was amazed how deep you could bury the int main() {}.
i think that the best one would (regardless of the source code qualities) an open source application that does something you are really interested in, or just find a simple usability problem or a simple bug.
then post your bugreport up on their tracker/mailinglist and offer to help with a patch with a little bit of help.
even if you don't manage to implement it, you might come up with a test case or at least discussion which will help you and the project. during the implementation attempt and/or testcase bulding you will most likely grep through a lot of code, commit logs and comments and might be able to implement your next idea.
if you are not familiar with the project's tools, you will be "wasting" a lot of time learning those while building a testcase/implementation attempt. that time you'll save during your next idea.
remember to start with small ideas. of course selecting a project that is both alive and non-hostile might be a good starting point as well.
Lets face it; either you do WebGL or you do some Microsoft Silverlight Direct3D mambojambo it does not matter. As long as it touches something and even possibly uses data from somewhere it's a security risk. And this applies to everything.
However, given the open nature of WebGL compared to some Microsoft closed-source solution, static/runtime analysis tools can be developed (and integrated) in WebGL implementations to lower the risk, the standard (or what ever we call it) can be changed so that more dangerious things are disallowed (or for example to the screenshot thingy Mozilla has right now, limited), where as with Microrsoft you just pretty much hope that it will not go sideways, and that they will not later on screw it up with updates.
Plus, WebGL is cross-platform by design, which is the number one downside for Microsoft. Still, I can't believe they are still going down this path... Wasn't Ballmer already fired or was that just hearsay? Also, it'd sound really strange if you couldn't adapt GL paths to Direct3D, as Wine is already doing the same other way around, and AFAIK succeeding [in small steps].
It's received through participating in open source project(s). A few things look as good as this; just link to your github or the most notorious bugs you've squashed from your resume and you'll be noticed. Plus you might even make good friends with like minded people and or get a call to work for a company developing a solution on top of your favourite open source project!
Last I checked MONO was aiming to deliver .NET to Linux. .NET (platform) patents scare people, not patents regarding the language specification. I guess you can patent anything in USA and sue on ever more in Texas, but I do not think that the language specification contains anything patentable.
Have you read the patent statement? It says:
So, until you have Microsoft releasing GPL (w/ classpath or whatever assemblies you use on .NET exception) or LGPL code that compiles under Linux you really shouldn't be using it.
While I think everyone can be look up Apple for product "just working [out of the box]" I think that's where it ends at Canonical. They must realize that if they continue to push their Ubuntu One and such services too hard, they will lose developers and then after few releases later users to other distributions.
Then again, I have nothing against them for "value-adding options", as long as those are "options" and do not make Ubuntu become the next Nokia Ovi (think about their [Windows] application for a few seconds -- horrible or the fact that most functions on my N8 require or prompt Ovi user account, and that bloody piece of sh*t can't care to remember my password anymore).
I still think that Canonical has had a great and good influence on Linux [distribution] community as whole and their investment on UI and system level innovation and new projects has helped the desktop usage. And I'm not saying this to undermine contributions by for example Red Hat or any single open source developer person -- just that to my knowledge, Canonical has not been around for too long to step into the big influencers/innovators club. Also, the more big names (and directions) we have as long as they are working together as well as possible, it's all good (freedesktop.org, etc.).
Sounds like any perfectly legit multinational corporation with too much marketshare just keeping "the competetive egde". Does this make anyone else remember Major General Smedley Butler, USMC's words?
This is way beyond sad. The last thing IT world needs are extraditions, even if the guy was quilty of the charges. If it takes 10 months to gather (make up) evidence, that makes me think he is innocent. I wonder how they are going to get anything posted as valid evidence, or are the separate laws for evidence against US nationals and foreigners? Thankfully the canadians seem to behave rationally most of the time, from what I've read.
I'm not a fan of cloud buzzword, but could slashdotters take a second to read that this code has been released on APL license? APL license, you know, apache?
This is a great development and its nice to see what the buying of SpringSource has already put in motion in VMWare. As pointed by others, this will be a good competitor to GAE, AWS and to whatever Microsoft is pushing.
Even I might be interested in this, in private cloud sense at least; perhaps it would be the easiest way to horizontally scale our software. We'll see.
Of course I didn't RTFA but we've had discussion about this kind of thing in Finland recently related to the new nuclear plant construction site and the worker benefit/paycheck violations made by sub-sub-sub-sub-subcontractors. AFAIK in Finland the buyer [of services] should already be responsible for that the contractor she grants a job to is playing by the law.
It's only reasonable that sub-contractors using pirated software would be regarded as the contractor using pirated software, as you can most likely assume that sub-contractor has lower operating costs because they use illegally obtained software, thus possibly lowering the costs of their job for the contractor.
Now, if someone would dare to pursue worker rights in the same fashion *ducks* :) And the other away around, this software/illegal activities by contractors should be reflected upon the buyer in all around fashion, at least to some reasonable extent of requiring the buyer to monitor and react to detected anomalies..
How do you confuse DDOS with violence? Attack is just a word I think you can attack in a debate as well.
I'd say that voluntary DDOS is more like a rally in front of a shop, for example animal right activists protesting in front of a fur-clothing store. It will turn down some customers but not in the way a DDOS does that. End result is mostly similar.
However I believe that Amazon might be the first one that might actually get some financial backslash over this compared to Mastercard and Visa which probably are not in the most visited websites, whereas S3 powers many and Amazon seems to have a lot of (American) customers.
You'd think INDIE film makers like the mastermind Uwe Boll would be delighted to have someone watching their shit, not suing for it — they sure as hell are not selling their products [to me] either nor can I rent them anywhere.
How good business model it is to produce something, only sell/make it available to very limited crowd and then start suing when someone is interested enough in your production to hunt it down online? I'd set up a "support us by buying a license for your downloaded film," for any sum. I'd at least would like to see a film maker do this once and publish the results.
I bet in EU you could even get some public funds for trial like the one described above. Or more specifically, even more public funding.
If this'll make Monty STFU and end his grief, then I'm all for it.
I just don't understand why not PostgreSQL, could someone explain why is mysql better when you provide simple hosting plans? PostgreSQL does seem to have an edge as a RDBMS, so are mysql databases more manageable per user or what's the reason?
Perhaps you were trying to spell out OpenJDK or Apache Harmony. GCJ is not... exactly the way to go -- it might had seem like it was before hotspot, but not anymore. I'd never run any of my java code on other than vm because of all the online optimization support.
I've bashed Vista and agree with almost everything I've read about it for the single reason; I've experienced all that myself.
I wasn't an early adopter -- my first experience was with my laptop, which I bought before SP1. Horrible startup times, and even though I've taken out all the desktop effects and updated everything it still simply sucks.
Kubuntu on the otherhand simply worked immediatedly after I installed it, much snappier and no IO problems (Vista SP2 still hangs when copying files). With the 9.04 I finally got very fast desktop effects that still enable the desktop to be faster than Vistas (without any effects).
Now days even ACPI sleep/hibernate work well in both operating systems.
I only keep Vista around to enable myself HP's bios/firmware upgrades; there's not even a remote possibility of being able to work with Eclipse in Vista -- not that it's fun in Kubuntu, but the times I need it, it'll do.
To get back to replying to you; Vista hasn't done any progress compared to Kubuntu. Perhaps Windows 7 finally fixes everything (copying files etc.) but I still think I should be getting it for free as an SP it really is; don't really care for the UI or DirectX side. I'm glad I only paid "the microsoft tax" with my laptop, imagine what the people who actually bought a license must feel..
Go and demand your gsm subscriptions and your mobiles separately.
Easy as that. Unless you are already past the point when there are only these mega corporations (Verizon + AT&T) selling you what ever bigger companies want.
Buy Nokia :) (The cheapest ones, you don't get angry when destroy the damn thing next friday when you're drunk! You don't really need all those fancy features, you just want to make a call, send an sms and every phone can run Opera Mini)
UAVs are to detect hostiles, observe movements (spying if you will) and perhaps engage them. You can't really use the UAV information to kill the ones benefiting from it -- unless someone is stupid enough to observe/admire their own camp from an UAV, which at wartime sounds pretty stupid. As an opposing force member you could see yourself in it's video feed, or gain information that you are not. That information can however be gained other ways too; for example:
Information sent by this UAV becomes a problem if it's decode able by the opposing forces while it's landing to or taking off from the airforce base. Then again, there cannot be too much to learn from there. As an opposing force member you most likely already have information (googled up perhaps) about their airforce base, the kind of security they have behind their lines. If someone was decoding your UAV transmissions to learn about your airbase, you'll most likely been already compromised as they ought to be in the visual range as well.
Of course this is mostly from army point of view, intelligence gathering can't be stupid enough transmitting anything unencrypted/unobfuscated.
I do not think that the problem lies in use of C/C++, but in the horrible way of using it. From what I've gathered around the Internet "why win32 is great" is that they lacked any kind of stable way of creating their (old?) APIs; everyone just created a new standard for return values and parameter handling. And on top of that some crazy macros that make Symbian code look readable in comparison.
I mean, I've only learned how to program in C/C++ (at university) but been working as a Java dev for quite some time now. Still I can almost make sense of mplayer's or ffmpeg's source code but every time I see some "Windows" C++ it's just plain awful because of all the macros and #define constants. If you ever read KDE's or Qt's sources and compare those to something done with win32... There is a massive difference.
Every tool can be miserably misused.
With Eclipse having it's own update/upgrade functionality I really think that distros should drop eclipse packaging.
It's damn misguiding though that distros have some antique version.
I think a quote from my favourite mini-tv-series "Generation Kill" works well in almost any discussion about "why army X does thing Y like Z when it would be the best to do it like A":
That'll sum it up.
4. Effect upon economic exploitation of the work - would seem to go against file-sharers. Obviously they aren't buying it! And by sharing it, they may be hurting the owner's ability to sell it, etc.
IANAL but didn't every *AA just have a record year (again), despite of the general downturn? They can blame it on "movies inspiring people when they are poor" but I'm not buying that.
At least my consuming habits have gone up since P2P; I buy the tv-series I watch (if or when they ever are released where I live) and buy the movies I enjoyed watching. Actually I just bought a book too, on which a movie was based.
For every new PC (w/ Vista) we buy I instruct their new owners to start getting used to OpenOffice and if necessary, use the Office trial they bundle with it again, only if necessary.
So far I've had 100% (2/2 yei!) success with converting co-workers from Office to OpenOffice. Perhaps the transition from XP to Vista helps with Office to OpenOffice at the same time.. At least the new ribbon interface is so strange to some people that it seems to scare people off.
Small print: these guys were not programmers or writers and only do simple tasks; they most likely had never even (nor will learn in the future) learned how to use styles with word processor.
But... since I'm an American.... I would rather let the people go to these sites, determine who is getting their jollies off looking at this stuff, and then let's round up all these sick f--- people and kill them.
That thought has occurred to me as well. Why block these sites when you could presumably get warrants to see who is going to them and actually investigate the people breaking the law instead of trying to impose a censorship scheme that will never work anyway?
Two greatest ideas of the century.
I wonder why not instead blocking these sites officials would attempt to co-operate internationally to hunt down the child abusers?
Sounds like there could be higher chance of random "normal" (as in not-interested-in-children-in-that-way) person seeing some child porn while hunting for his/her kind of free porn from the Internet compared to the chance of someone "just happening to produce child porn and putting it up on the Internet."
In your model the "random normal person" would be thrown to the jail, child abusers getting thanked by the police for giving them yet another sick person stumbling on their site.
What all this boils down to is the politicians thinking that closing their eyes makes the problem go away. The Police officials must know that is not the right way; but they do not have a choice.
What if you just bought 8GB ram, or is 64-bit system out of question?
Having worked with eclipse for the past year with mid-level pc (some core2 duo with 32-bit linux, 2GB ram, basic SATA hd) I've been thinking that maximizing the available ram would have the same benefits than SSD in the best scenario (regarding the performance penalty reported in ./ not long ago) and possibly be even a better choice in the long run...
I do not think TPB is about theft.. Or at least that's not what made it so popular, here's the real deal:
With this new cool Internet, where news about everything travels at lightspeed, and stuff gets old faster than yesterdays newspaper, people want to see their films now, not in 12 months.
* It's not legal to watch Region 1 DVD's where I live, as I live in Europe. Alas, not even watching DVD's under linux is legal here anymore.
I at least, have contacted for example Fox, on how to view some of their series legally from here, but they didn't even bother. That sends a clear message to me that it's ok to download 24 from bittorrent, hell they do not even want my money, I doubt they are going to sue me if they do not want to make a deal in the first place.
I doubt that it will much of an issue. Having anywhere between 10-100Mbps (up&down) up to what ever and making it really work at that level like a charm will open up a lot of potential to people spreading up around the country and creating jobs as they slowly spread..
I'd work from home, and even better I'd like to move over to a bit more rural area only if I could get a 10Mbit line up there.