So you are saying that companies that do illegal things at the request of the government should be "given a pass", rather than have to make a decision that might be inconvenient?
I would rather not have set the precedent that companies can have laws made just for them giving them immunity for crimes committed in the past.
.... but, you could spot the pimple on the Pron star's ass from 1000 feet away without using a zoom lens.
You mean a telephoto lens?
I have a Sigma 10-20mm lens that is a zoom lens that is from crazy-wide to very-wide, and doesn't get to a "normal" focal length. Perhaps you mean something like a 500mm lens, which doesn't zoom?
Focal length comparison, from 10 to 500mm on a 1.5x crop sensor here
Whereas a commercial software (FOSS or not) will make things easier by ensuring support for the stuff they give out.
Why?
What if ReiserFS had been closed source, costing $$$? Then when this happened, not only would support from Reiser cease, nobody else could continue development or support due to the closed source.
Companies are not immune from going out of business.
As it is now, Canonical, Red Hat, Novell, or any of the other commercial open source companies could pick up ReiserFS and keep going with it. That would be much harder to do with a closed source program.
This Agreement is accepted upon your use of the MySpace Website
Wouldn't that make the TOS invalid as a contract, since you can't see it before "using" the website, if that is defined as a http GET to the MySpace server?
I know this is/. and reading the article is bad form, but from the article:
If a computer repair technician without a government-issued private investigator's license takes any actions that the government deems to be an "investigation," they may be subject to criminal penalties of up to one year in jail and a $4,000 fine, as well as civil penalties of up to $10,000. The definition of "investigation" is very broad and encompasses many common computer repair tasks.
Imagine that doing a "find . -name file.jpg" or similar might be considered an "investigation".
Hah, that will not happen. They will offer them with some crazy Windows Vista only DRM, priced the exact same as the printed book, and then use the complete lack of sales as a "see, people don't want e-book versions" example.
(I really wish I was being a bit too pessimistic there, but...)
While it is good that it is easy to ignore reset packets that were created by the ISP, the question still remains:
Why should we have to block forged packets made by the ISP? If the MAFIAA suits are banking on IP == identity, and the ISP is forging packets with an IP that doesn't belong to any computer they own, isn't that a fairly serious form of forgery?
The problem with a digital Kill Switch is just like a taser: If there is no residual damage from using the tool, it WILL be abused.
PIT maneuver: damage results to both cars, but you can't install anything on your car top prevent it. Kill Switch: can be used at any time, since there isn't any damage to any cars as a result.
Just look at the mess with tasers, where they are used very frequently in situations that police wouldn't have used a baton because that would be excessive.
Precisely how would you have them work? Arrest people before they commit a crime?
Nope. But how could a cop defend me from someone that is breaking into my house. Even assuming that I had an alarm system that called the cops directly the instant that my house was broken into, the cops can't got to me before the perp has the opportunity to hurt me. Unless I have a gun handy, and then I can kill them. If someone breaks into my house, and I don't care if they are a cop or whatever, I have no option but to assume that they will not be afraid to hurt me. And that will reduce crime, since breaking into the wrong house is going to have you killed.
So then how would I use that "locked up and unloaded" gun if someone tried to carjack me? "It's common sense." would seem to preclude any usage of the gun for self defense.
And I am worse than a right-wing nutjob: I am a libertarian.
On my WRT-54GL with Tomato (others might work, Tomato is the easiest of ddwrt, openwrt in my experience), the QOS settings can be limited in just the way you want, with everything except the highest only being allowed only 75% of your upload, or whatever you want.
Downstream is a bit harder to restrict, since the queue is on the Telcom side of things, but you could do some QOS in your router there as well.
Slashdot Mirror
And that has already caused problems
Or even better, my-server.invalid and other-server.invalid
And then people would ask if there is really a TLD for handicapped people...
So you are saying that companies that do illegal things at the request of the government should be "given a pass", rather than have to make a decision that might be inconvenient?
I would rather not have set the precedent that companies can have laws made just for them giving them immunity for crimes committed in the past.
Yep, just look at the recent FISA bill that passed.
Imagined fear is pretty good for eliminating our rights.
... I wished I wasn't salaried.
Or, "Change, for the worse"
That is still change.
Doesn't "state secrets" as currently used in court violate the first amendment?
Not the speech part, the ... to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. part.
That would be called photo stitching, and is useful for panoramas of landscapes.
Not very useful for a picture of a person, unless you like arms that have seams.
You mean a telephoto lens?
I have a Sigma 10-20mm lens that is a zoom lens that is from crazy-wide to very-wide, and doesn't get to a "normal" focal length. Perhaps you mean something like a 500mm lens, which doesn't zoom?
Focal length comparison, from 10 to 500mm on a 1.5x crop sensor here
On my laptop, about a year. On my desktop, about half a year.
In both cases it was to replace a Gentoo installation that got very messed up (updating libexpat would tend to do that).
Sweet, 16 KBps.
If a programmer has never interacted with make directly, how good of a programmer can they be?
Why?
What if ReiserFS had been closed source, costing $$$? Then when this happened, not only would support from Reiser cease, nobody else could continue development or support due to the closed source.
Companies are not immune from going out of business.
As it is now, Canonical, Red Hat, Novell, or any of the other commercial open source companies could pick up ReiserFS and keep going with it. That would be much harder to do with a closed source program.
You mean like the OCZ's Brain Wave Interface Headband that was posted here a little over a month ago?
No surgery, and it affords some control of the mouse cursor without any arm movement.
Wouldn't that make the TOS invalid as a contract, since you can't see it before "using" the website, if that is defined as a http GET to the MySpace server?
You might not live that long.
2095 is a long time away.
I know this is /. and reading the article is bad form, but from the article:
Imagine that doing a "find . -name file.jpg" or similar might be considered an "investigation".
Chief Information Officer
CEO: Chief Executive Officer
CFO: Chief Financial Officer
CxO terms are pretty common for the top level in larger corporations.
Hah, that will not happen.
They will offer them with some crazy Windows Vista only DRM, priced the exact same as the printed book, and then use the complete lack of sales as a "see, people don't want e-book versions" example.
(I really wish I was being a bit too pessimistic there, but...)
Or maybe that is another thing that should make the people work at the credit union say "WTF is the FDIC doing at a credit union?"
While it is good that it is easy to ignore reset packets that were created by the ISP, the question still remains:
Why should we have to block forged packets made by the ISP? If the MAFIAA suits are banking on IP == identity, and the ISP is forging packets with an IP that doesn't belong to any computer they own, isn't that a fairly serious form of forgery?
And, wow that site went down fast.
The problem with a digital Kill Switch is just like a taser: If there is no residual damage from using the tool, it WILL be abused.
PIT maneuver: damage results to both cars, but you can't install anything on your car top prevent it.
Kill Switch: can be used at any time, since there isn't any damage to any cars as a result.
Just look at the mess with tasers, where they are used very frequently in situations that police wouldn't have used a baton because that would be excessive.
Nope. But how could a cop defend me from someone that is breaking into my house. Even assuming that I had an alarm system that called the cops directly the instant that my house was broken into, the cops can't got to me before the perp has the opportunity to hurt me. Unless I have a gun handy, and then I can kill them. If someone breaks into my house, and I don't care if they are a cop or whatever, I have no option but to assume that they will not be afraid to hurt me. And that will reduce crime, since breaking into the wrong house is going to have you killed.
So then how would I use that "locked up and unloaded" gun if someone tried to carjack me? "It's common sense." would seem to preclude any usage of the gun for self defense.
And I am worse than a right-wing nutjob: I am a libertarian.
QOS should work if you set it up properly.
On my WRT-54GL with Tomato (others might work, Tomato is the easiest of ddwrt, openwrt in my experience), the QOS settings can be limited in just the way you want, with everything except the highest only being allowed only 75% of your upload, or whatever you want.
Downstream is a bit harder to restrict, since the queue is on the Telcom side of things, but you could do some QOS in your router there as well.
Gun Control only serves to take guns out of the hands of people that give a shit about the law.
Lets have more law abiding citizens with guns with the ability to defend themselves against criminals.
Police aren't there to defend you, they are there to arrest people (generally after they commit a crime).