Servers are out of sight - and in a 19 rack. It's not something a petty thief would even have a clue as to what it did, certainly no resale value in the area, and we don't have professional thief's here.
Actually 98% of all thefts in this area are for one thing, guns. There are about 1% for large screen TVs. 98% are also done by someone the victim knew - thus an image is usually plenty to go on with, like I said, community involvement.
So yes, I agree, you need to consider your local situation and whether or not its worth the effort.
Yes, that is a problem. Fortunately I live in (primitive) area where if you prove to enough people, they will take matters into their own hands if the police are given an opportunity and do not do anything. Happens all the time.
I went through this about 6 months ago.
I ran Linux zoneminder and Blue Iris - a commercial but inexpensive Windows program each on their own dedicated servers. The servers were single rack space Dual Atoms.
I then installed a $100 eBay wireless IP camera, a Linksys wireless IP camera, A usb video capture card with 1 camera, and a regular USB web-cam so I could try each of these out in comparison.
The $100 camera was useless - terrible focus. The linksys, being the most expensive at $250 was the best, but is not an outdoor camera without additional housing. The USB camera is acceptable but requires proximity to the servers. The video camera is also acceptable.
After running the software for 2 months, I eventually settled on Blue Iris. It was $49 and a lot more stable than ZoneMinder. There were some features of zoneminder I liked, but after using both I found several instances were ZoneMinder had flaked out and I could not retrieve data/images that I would need if I was really researching a theft. The errors are very cryptic, often requiring extreme measures to determine what had gone wrong. Usually I just gave up and rebooted everything and it would start working again. The configuration for zoneminder is also very difficult, having to get various versions of video for linux V1 and V2, java applets/jar files etc all tied together. You can go with their 'ready to run CD' to avoid the painful configuration work, but then you are stuck with their Linux distribution, and I wanted to go with the current Ubuntu.
In the end, I have a system I am confident will provide me with images after an incident that will lead to an arrest. I plan on adding/replacing with more of the Linksys style wireless IP cams, at about $250 a pop as budget allows. The entire system will probably get its own dedicated wireless lan eventually. I can also browse in when I am on the road and check in on things, although that is more of a 'peace of mind' thing and doesn't really have much practical use.
Server - $300ish with 1.5T disk space, wireless hub (eBay) $50ish, wireless cams - $250ish each, Windows+Blue Iris - $150ish - reasonably expect up to about 6 cameras. This puts it in the same range as a decent Hard disk based dedicated security recorder from say Radio Shack, but with a wireless ability and lot more flexibility.
Really? Let's hear your prosecution for a case of murder by hacking an implantable device? Even if someone was smart enough to look into the device to see it had been hacked, there would be no evidence of who did it. Pick an important enough target, ie Dick Cheney, and you have a perfect untraceable murder.
I've got one of these things - a result of conductive systems failure (CSF) - it means the top half can't talk to the bottom half to coordinate/synchronize pumps.
In a way, I whole heartedly (pun intended) agree with your statement - but then I start to think - Windows 95 probably could have passed a clinical trial - and then came the hackers.
So, I got this thing in my chest that keeps me alive, can be communicated with via an electromagnet, and has anyone ever really considered what would happen if a hacker tried to hack it? I seriously doubt it. I'd bet $100 the password is the default from the factory (yes it has a digital communications protocol via the elctro-magnet).
Now the real question - do I feel safer from obscurity, or safer knowing that the source code is available for anyone to look at and hack?
Please keep the code locked up as tight as possible! The ratio of mal-intended hackers to good-intentioned source code reviewers is about 19238719273918273 to 1.
People get pissed at the government, and after the economy crashes and we have the biggest loss of freedoms this country has ever seen we vote out the brain donor bush, and bring in Obama. Then people get pissed that the economy still hasn't recovered, and both wars are still on-going, so we will vote out the democrats and bring back the same ignorant moron party we had before. Somewhere in there is a lesson - its not the parties that are broken, its the entire system, and it isn't going to change. And until some country like Iran or China gets far enough ahead that they can successfully invade and take over the US, we are stuck in this life sucking loop.
It shouldn't take much longer, with the republicans again in charge they can replace all education with bible schools, and deprive everyone of the internet, thus providing the total mind control they so desperately seek, making the country ripe for attack (again). I have given up arguing with people in my area. The Republicans make some of the stupidest talking points, and my town soaks it up like a sponge, the weak minded bunch that they are, willing to be lead to any demise, because Jesus will save them.
Mod parent worse than troll, it is an outright lie. Microsoft and General Electric both avoid paying any US taxes by provisioning their income to overseas accounts, where the income tax is then deferred indefinitely. http://www.forbes.com/2010/04/01/ge-exxon-walmart-business-washington-corporate-taxes.html
I'm sick of hearing this right wing lie. Big companies do not pay their fair share, the have developed their own legal welfare system that sucks money from Americans, all the while being helped by their sheep screaming how things like health care is too costly. I'm not sure who is dumber, the people who support welfare for rich corporations/people, or the people who allow it. I would say the latter.
I can't wait for Microsoft to release an exploit for gmail - surely no one will be bothered by an exploit that makes everyone's current and past email available?
Your list of software identifies you as a pro-sumer at best. Seriously, every pro uses pro tools, and nothing else has better than 2% of the market. The difference is in what you call a pro - a dude playing sax on the street corner had some money thrown into his case, is he a pro? I think not. You buddy that plays a gig at the local bar, is he a pro - I think not. Someone who spends a minimum of $10,000 to get an album recorded and produced, is he a pro - probably, and the odds are better than 98 to 1 he used pro tools in the process.
I've seen over $14,000 spent on 30 year old analog channel strips restored from old consoles, you think those guys are going to run an open source program?
Linux may make it to a home studio level someday - it has a long way to go now, but it will never in a million years make it to a professional studio.
I tried robotics studio 2 years ago - to be honest I don't ever remembering it being a paid app. I guess maybe they had an 'express' version like they do with visual studio now. But just like visual studio, the extra stuff in the paid version is really not useful to very many, above what is there in the express version.
Anyhow, it was a decent framework, but had a limited target of hardware. If microsoft does for RS what it did with windows, and that means write drivers for every piece of hardware out there, then it will become the defacto standard. It is a good strategy with a proven track record. Make an up front investment writing code that the manufacturers could/should have written, but were too lazy, and in the process you become the ubiquitous platform - it will pay off in the long run.
There is no question in my mind we are about to encounter a robot explosion - I've read that a lot of smart people predict the labor market will shrink to less than 10% of its current size in 10 years - there will a lot of rich people, and a lot of people out of work all at the same time, just like the time these new fangled things called computers and automation came around. If I was a kid looking to the future (a job), I sure as hell would be reading and learning everything I could about Microsoft Robotics Studio right now.
Agreed. right now, banks do what they can they can to take the easy road to money. For the most part that means accepting any transaction from anyone with no proof of identity or verification of authenticity on transactions. In specific, the credit card companies are the major source of easy money, and they are supplemented with the greed to make an additional transaction fee. In the US, go to your bank and ask 'who took my money?' At best you will get an 800 number to some robo-answering machine. There is no law or agreement that a bank has to tell you who they gave your money to. And as long as credit cards can absorb the stolen amounts, they are not going to require authentication, as it will inconvenience the consumer and hurt volume. It took many years for the recent credit rules to get through in the US that had some small dent on the corruptness of banks and credit cards in the US. But they did not go far enough. What used to be called loan sharking in the US is still legal for 'financial institutions'. We are supposed to elect politicians to represent us, what segment of the population was represented by making it 'illegal to charge huge interests rates for the loaning of money, except for financial institutions' ? That is a blatant and obvious sign of how corrupt our political system has become. Just wait until the malware authors learn about lobbying.
Do you have any reference for that? Both the 'had for decades' and 'windows users complained' part.
I've used XWindows for the better part of 30 years and I have never encountered this behavior in any Windows Manager. Not saying it didn't happen, just never have seen it.
Why would windows users complain about keystroke shortcuts (without the obvious windows user jokes)? To claim that they did just makes it seem as though you are making it all up.
I needed better remote web access than my previous phone provided. I will have to say so far I am happy with it as a phone and mobile web device. I am a little disappointed in the games available (something to kill time while waiting in the drs office), but that is a small part of why I got it.
But the premise of the story does worry me a little. This is one area where a central control point (ie apple or microsoft) has a huge advantage in my opinion. A failure in the android market will confirm this as a potential defect in open source. Time will tell.
Its very possible, even probable that is the update that I applied this week, as that is about how often I plug my Zune in for anything other than a recharge. But it definitely did a firmware update, and then proceeded to delete my entire music library on my server and the Zune when I told it to delete one album I never listen to. As far as my perception, it happened the same week, but you are right, it very well may have been an older update.
I do not totally buy it. I have a Windows server that has been running for many years just fine. It is inside my house behind a Broadband router and has very little and very occasional access to the internet. It may have had a rootkit, I do not deny, but I kinda of doubt it, but it is possible. After the Tuesday updates the machine crashed several times - at least 4 that I am aware of, then stopped crashing. I am to believe that the rootkit got itself updated and is now happily running again? What is this root kit doing? I monitor/watch my internet traffic fairly close because I am on a satelite connection with bandwdith caps, and I don't really see any traffic from or to this server, so if that's all the root kit does, let it have its way.
No what really happened is Microsoft screwed up an update more than usual, and they are now to trying to write it off and blame it on something else. The same week they put out a miserable Zune update that caused my Zune to find its way to the trash can.
Not bogus at. I am working on a project at this very moment that started in DirectX. Sat on the shelf for a number of years, and when I decided to start it up again, made the switch to openGL. I wished I had not.
1) openGL documentation sucks at best. Examples are all of the same beginner draw a triangle type.
2) Not only does directX provide more than just graphics, even within the graphics space it provides a lot more grunt code I have to do myself in openGL.
3) I use managed languages. I am not developing a game, I am developing business software (CAD/CAM related). Both openGL and DirectX currently suck in this respect. At least directX has XNA for games. OpenGL has no native (managed) Windows forms or WPF implementations. If I was developing a game, XNA is the easy choice. But since I am developing a business app, I live with stale dead third party libraries (TAO in this case).
4) Very relevant - for whatever reason, mind share is currently on DirectX - and from a community support perspective that is huge.
5) I was able to be productive in directX 8 (where I started) enormously faster than openGL. Even now, I end up converting directX code to openGL most of the time, as opposed to finding openGL code that shows what I am trying to accomplish.
Like I said, I wished I would have stayed with DirectX. If and when this project gets completed I will never use openGL again unless they provide better managed language support , better documentation and better built in functionality. I get tired of passing in integer values to set parameters. When I want to set a light color I want to call SetLightColor(Color), not setSomeParamater(12, 15); It makes for unreadable and unmaintainable code. I know, there are those who still think C is great, and they write some of the ugliest code on the planet, let them collect in the a little tiny small group for all I care.
Stupid friggin article.
First off, in order for the law to have any effect, you have to find someone willing to press charges.
Second, the charged person will have a right to be judged by their peers.
So, do you think anyone would prosecute someone under this law? Do you think any jury (including a judge) would convict someone for these circumstances?
This is how and why the laws work in the US, are they that much different in the UK?. Whoever wrote (and posted here) the article is just digging for attention on a non-issue.
Now if images did leak out onto the internet, then you have a case against anyone who allowed or enabled that leak. So, I would be all for stringent historical logging of usage of these machines. Some way to identify all persons who had access that could have leaked an inappropriate image, be it child or not. So, like other things, quit trying to stop a good thing based on exaggeration, and spend more effort discussing and fixing the real problem.
If you mean loss of a job in a pretty tough economy to be life threatening, then yes. Which I do btw. No big deal, in the real world, as opposed to la-la land that some of you live in, the FAA would insure the story was suppressed, dismissed and discredited long before me, a low level peon ever got charged with a crime.
But dont forget VM, the first virtualization OS that I know of - and I dont know much about non-ibm computers of that time - but it came out of the necessity of the people who started running DOS while waiting for OS to get finished, and then couldnt afford 2 computers to run simultaneously while they migrated from DOS to OS. and of course, it is now z/VM - and more often used as part of the hardware microcode providing hardware partitioning.
All early IBM OSs had the source freely available, DOS, OS and VM. I do not think the license restricted redistribution either, since it was available freely from the vendor. The OSs did not become 'licensed' until IBM got tired of supplying the OS for competing hardware - Amdal - and in my mind you can blame the entire software licensing mess of today on a hardware vendor too lazy to write (significant portions of) its own software, and mostly interested in hardware only profits (wow, sounds vaguely familiar even today).
Anyhow, I was one of those geeky systems programmer guys, making operating system level changes to source code - I never saw it as open source movement though, just something we did to make the OS better fit our needs. 90% of what we needed could be done with vendor supplied 'hooks' that we shimmed in our 'exits' at. I wish more of that kind of thing still existed in all OSs.
As far as I know we don't have a standard OS for cell phones, do we? The problem with robots is the huge variations in platform ability. And I personally sure don't want a least common denominator solution. With the PC, you had one kind of hardware, the IBM PC, that everyone cloned, and that made a common OS a lot more practical. Cell phones & Robots have taken a completely different path so far. Yes, I dabble in robots - a hitec RoboNova. It's fairly limited as to processing power, but comes with an adequate RoboBasic language. If I really wanted to do more serious things with it, I would bolt on a PC (yes they have them for it now). In that respect, there is already a common OS available - the same common OS that any PC can run. And yes, it will run DOS, Windows and/or CE, and linux - pick your poison.
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Servers are out of sight - and in a 19 rack. It's not something a petty thief would even have a clue as to what it did, certainly no resale value in the area, and we don't have professional thief's here.
Actually 98% of all thefts in this area are for one thing, guns. There are about 1% for large screen TVs. 98% are also done by someone the victim knew - thus an image is usually plenty to go on with, like I said, community involvement.
So yes, I agree, you need to consider your local situation and whether or not its worth the effort.
Yes, that is a problem. Fortunately I live in (primitive) area where if you prove to enough people, they will take matters into their own hands if the police are given an opportunity and do not do anything. Happens all the time.
I went through this about 6 months ago.
I ran Linux zoneminder and Blue Iris - a commercial but inexpensive Windows program each on their own dedicated servers. The servers were single rack space Dual Atoms. I then installed a $100 eBay wireless IP camera, a Linksys wireless IP camera, A usb video capture card with 1 camera, and a regular USB web-cam so I could try each of these out in comparison.
The $100 camera was useless - terrible focus. The linksys, being the most expensive at $250 was the best, but is not an outdoor camera without additional housing. The USB camera is acceptable but requires proximity to the servers. The video camera is also acceptable.
After running the software for 2 months, I eventually settled on Blue Iris. It was $49 and a lot more stable than ZoneMinder. There were some features of zoneminder I liked, but after using both I found several instances were ZoneMinder had flaked out and I could not retrieve data/images that I would need if I was really researching a theft. The errors are very cryptic, often requiring extreme measures to determine what had gone wrong. Usually I just gave up and rebooted everything and it would start working again. The configuration for zoneminder is also very difficult, having to get various versions of video for linux V1 and V2, java applets/jar files etc all tied together. You can go with their 'ready to run CD' to avoid the painful configuration work, but then you are stuck with their Linux distribution, and I wanted to go with the current Ubuntu.
In the end, I have a system I am confident will provide me with images after an incident that will lead to an arrest. I plan on adding/replacing with more of the Linksys style wireless IP cams, at about $250 a pop as budget allows. The entire system will probably get its own dedicated wireless lan eventually. I can also browse in when I am on the road and check in on things, although that is more of a 'peace of mind' thing and doesn't really have much practical use.
Server - $300ish with 1.5T disk space, wireless hub (eBay) $50ish, wireless cams - $250ish each, Windows+Blue Iris - $150ish - reasonably expect up to about 6 cameras. This puts it in the same range as a decent Hard disk based dedicated security recorder from say Radio Shack, but with a wireless ability and lot more flexibility.
Really? Let's hear your prosecution for a case of murder by hacking an implantable device? Even if someone was smart enough to look into the device to see it had been hacked, there would be no evidence of who did it. Pick an important enough target, ie Dick Cheney, and you have a perfect untraceable murder.
Well said.
I've got one of these things - a result of conductive systems failure (CSF) - it means the top half can't talk to the bottom half to coordinate/synchronize pumps.
In a way, I whole heartedly (pun intended) agree with your statement - but then I start to think - Windows 95 probably could have passed a clinical trial - and then came the hackers.
So, I got this thing in my chest that keeps me alive, can be communicated with via an electromagnet, and has anyone ever really considered what would happen if a hacker tried to hack it? I seriously doubt it. I'd bet $100 the password is the default from the factory (yes it has a digital communications protocol via the elctro-magnet).
Now the real question - do I feel safer from obscurity, or safer knowing that the source code is available for anyone to look at and hack?
Please keep the code locked up as tight as possible! The ratio of mal-intended hackers to good-intentioned source code reviewers is about 19238719273918273 to 1.
People get pissed at the government, and after the economy crashes and we have the biggest loss of freedoms this country has ever seen we vote out the brain donor bush, and bring in Obama. Then people get pissed that the economy still hasn't recovered, and both wars are still on-going, so we will vote out the democrats and bring back the same ignorant moron party we had before. Somewhere in there is a lesson - its not the parties that are broken, its the entire system, and it isn't going to change. And until some country like Iran or China gets far enough ahead that they can successfully invade and take over the US, we are stuck in this life sucking loop.
It shouldn't take much longer, with the republicans again in charge they can replace all education with bible schools, and deprive everyone of the internet, thus providing the total mind control they so desperately seek, making the country ripe for attack (again).
I have given up arguing with people in my area. The Republicans make some of the stupidest talking points, and my town soaks it up like a sponge, the weak minded bunch that they are, willing to be lead to any demise, because Jesus will save them.
What is the difference between this and the tech support offered by most companies?
Mod parent worse than troll, it is an outright lie. Microsoft and General Electric both avoid paying any US taxes by provisioning their income to overseas accounts, where the income tax is then deferred indefinitely.
http://www.forbes.com/2010/04/01/ge-exxon-walmart-business-washington-corporate-taxes.html
I'm sick of hearing this right wing lie. Big companies do not pay their fair share, the have developed their own legal welfare system that sucks money from Americans, all the while being helped by their sheep screaming how things like health care is too costly. I'm not sure who is dumber, the people who support welfare for rich corporations/people, or the people who allow it. I would say the latter.
When Bill Gate's company and General Electric start paying US taxes I will take them seriously. Until then they can go fuck themselves.
I can't wait for Microsoft to release an exploit for gmail - surely no one will be bothered by an exploit that makes everyone's current and past email available?
+10 if possible.
Your list of software identifies you as a pro-sumer at best. Seriously, every pro uses pro tools, and nothing else has better than 2% of the market. The difference is in what you call a pro - a dude playing sax on the street corner had some money thrown into his case, is he a pro? I think not. You buddy that plays a gig at the local bar, is he a pro - I think not. Someone who spends a minimum of $10,000 to get an album recorded and produced, is he a pro - probably, and the odds are better than 98 to 1 he used pro tools in the process. I've seen over $14,000 spent on 30 year old analog channel strips restored from old consoles, you think those guys are going to run an open source program? Linux may make it to a home studio level someday - it has a long way to go now, but it will never in a million years make it to a professional studio.
I tried robotics studio 2 years ago - to be honest I don't ever remembering it being a paid app. I guess maybe they had an 'express' version like they do with visual studio now. But just like visual studio, the extra stuff in the paid version is really not useful to very many, above what is there in the express version.
Anyhow, it was a decent framework, but had a limited target of hardware. If microsoft does for RS what it did with windows, and that means write drivers for every piece of hardware out there, then it will become the defacto standard. It is a good strategy with a proven track record. Make an up front investment writing code that the manufacturers could/should have written, but were too lazy, and in the process you become the ubiquitous platform - it will pay off in the long run.
There is no question in my mind we are about to encounter a robot explosion - I've read that a lot of smart people predict the labor market will shrink to less than 10% of its current size in 10 years - there will a lot of rich people, and a lot of people out of work all at the same time, just like the time these new fangled things called computers and automation came around. If I was a kid looking to the future (a job), I sure as hell would be reading and learning everything I could about Microsoft Robotics Studio right now.
Agreed. right now, banks do what they can they can to take the easy road to money. For the most part that means accepting any transaction from anyone with no proof of identity or verification of authenticity on transactions. In specific, the credit card companies are the major source of easy money, and they are supplemented with the greed to make an additional transaction fee. In the US, go to your bank and ask 'who took my money?' At best you will get an 800 number to some robo-answering machine. There is no law or agreement that a bank has to tell you who they gave your money to.
And as long as credit cards can absorb the stolen amounts, they are not going to require authentication, as it will inconvenience the consumer and hurt volume.
It took many years for the recent credit rules to get through in the US that had some small dent on the corruptness of banks and credit cards in the US. But they did not go far enough. What used to be called loan sharking in the US is still legal for 'financial institutions'. We are supposed to elect politicians to represent us, what segment of the population was represented by making it 'illegal to charge huge interests rates for the loaning of money, except for financial institutions' ? That is a blatant and obvious sign of how corrupt our political system has become.
Just wait until the malware authors learn about lobbying.
Do you have any reference for that? Both the 'had for decades' and 'windows users complained' part.
I've used XWindows for the better part of 30 years and I have never encountered this behavior in any Windows Manager. Not saying it didn't happen, just never have seen it.
Why would windows users complain about keystroke shortcuts (without the obvious windows user jokes)? To claim that they did just makes it seem as though you are making it all up.
I needed better remote web access than my previous phone provided. I will have to say so far I am happy with it as a phone and mobile web device. I am a little disappointed in the games available (something to kill time while waiting in the drs office), but that is a small part of why I got it.
But the premise of the story does worry me a little. This is one area where a central control point (ie apple or microsoft) has a huge advantage in my opinion. A failure in the android market will confirm this as a potential defect in open source. Time will tell.
Its very possible, even probable that is the update that I applied this week, as that is about how often I plug my Zune in for anything other than a recharge. But it definitely did a firmware update, and then proceeded to delete my entire music library on my server and the Zune when I told it to delete one album I never listen to. As far as my perception, it happened the same week, but you are right, it very well may have been an older update.
I do not totally buy it. I have a Windows server that has been running for many years just fine. It is inside my house behind a Broadband router and has very little and very occasional access to the internet. It may have had a rootkit, I do not deny, but I kinda of doubt it, but it is possible. After the Tuesday updates the machine crashed several times - at least 4 that I am aware of, then stopped crashing. I am to believe that the rootkit got itself updated and is now happily running again? What is this root kit doing? I monitor/watch my internet traffic fairly close because I am on a satelite connection with bandwdith caps, and I don't really see any traffic from or to this server, so if that's all the root kit does, let it have its way.
No what really happened is Microsoft screwed up an update more than usual, and they are now to trying to write it off and blame it on something else. The same week they put out a miserable Zune update that caused my Zune to find its way to the trash can.
Not bogus at. I am working on a project at this very moment that started in DirectX. Sat on the shelf for a number of years, and when I decided to start it up again, made the switch to openGL. I wished I had not.
1) openGL documentation sucks at best. Examples are all of the same beginner draw a triangle type.
2) Not only does directX provide more than just graphics, even within the graphics space it provides a lot more grunt code I have to do myself in openGL.
3) I use managed languages. I am not developing a game, I am developing business software (CAD/CAM related). Both openGL and DirectX currently suck in this respect. At least directX has XNA for games. OpenGL has no native (managed) Windows forms or WPF implementations. If I was developing a game, XNA is the easy choice. But since I am developing a business app, I live with stale dead third party libraries (TAO in this case).
4) Very relevant - for whatever reason, mind share is currently on DirectX - and from a community support perspective that is huge.
5) I was able to be productive in directX 8 (where I started) enormously faster than openGL. Even now, I end up converting directX code to openGL most of the time, as opposed to finding openGL code that shows what I am trying to accomplish.
Like I said, I wished I would have stayed with DirectX. If and when this project gets completed I will never use openGL again unless they provide better managed language support , better documentation and better built in functionality. I get tired of passing in integer values to set parameters. When I want to set a light color I want to call SetLightColor(Color), not setSomeParamater(12, 15); It makes for unreadable and unmaintainable code. I know, there are those who still think C is great, and they write some of the ugliest code on the planet, let them collect in the a little tiny small group for all I care.
Stupid friggin article.
First off, in order for the law to have any effect, you have to find someone willing to press charges.
Second, the charged person will have a right to be judged by their peers.
So, do you think anyone would prosecute someone under this law? Do you think any jury (including a judge) would convict someone for these circumstances?
This is how and why the laws work in the US, are they that much different in the UK?. Whoever wrote (and posted here) the article is just digging for attention on a non-issue.
Now if images did leak out onto the internet, then you have a case against anyone who allowed or enabled that leak. So, I would be all for stringent historical logging of usage of these machines. Some way to identify all persons who had access that could have leaked an inappropriate image, be it child or not. So, like other things, quit trying to stop a good thing based on exaggeration, and spend more effort discussing and fixing the real problem.
If you mean loss of a job in a pretty tough economy to be life threatening, then yes. Which I do btw. No big deal, in the real world, as opposed to la-la land that some of you live in, the FAA would insure the story was suppressed, dismissed and discredited long before me, a low level peon ever got charged with a crime.
sigh, embarrassed to admit, but was forced by employer to do the same thing at the FAA once. Talk about a scary thought.
Agreed - DOS had nothing to do with it.
But dont forget VM, the first virtualization OS that I know of - and I dont know much about non-ibm computers of that time - but it came out of the necessity of the people who started running DOS while waiting for OS to get finished, and then couldnt afford 2 computers to run simultaneously while they migrated from DOS to OS. and of course, it is now z/VM - and more often used as part of the hardware microcode providing hardware partitioning.
All early IBM OSs had the source freely available, DOS, OS and VM. I do not think the license restricted redistribution either, since it was available freely from the vendor. The OSs did not become 'licensed' until IBM got tired of supplying the OS for competing hardware - Amdal - and in my mind you can blame the entire software licensing mess of today on a hardware vendor too lazy to write (significant portions of) its own software, and mostly interested in hardware only profits (wow, sounds vaguely familiar even today).
Anyhow, I was one of those geeky systems programmer guys, making operating system level changes to source code - I never saw it as open source movement though, just something we did to make the OS better fit our needs. 90% of what we needed could be done with vendor supplied 'hooks' that we shimmed in our 'exits' at. I wish more of that kind of thing still existed in all OSs.
As far as I know we don't have a standard OS for cell phones, do we? The problem with robots is the huge variations in platform ability. And I personally sure don't want a least common denominator solution. With the PC, you had one kind of hardware, the IBM PC, that everyone cloned, and that made a common OS a lot more practical. Cell phones & Robots have taken a completely different path so far. Yes, I dabble in robots - a hitec RoboNova. It's fairly limited as to processing power, but comes with an adequate RoboBasic language. If I really wanted to do more serious things with it, I would bolt on a PC (yes they have them for it now). In that respect, there is already a common OS available - the same common OS that any PC can run. And yes, it will run DOS, Windows and/or CE, and linux - pick your poison.
http://www.batchpcb.com/ you might have to wait a week or 2 but cheap and just what you are looking for.