I agree with you, but the problem is that several companies are already doing something quite similar, and it is called TiVoization
Fon, TiVo, and a few other companies distribute devices that run a linux kernel. To be compliant with GPLv2 they distribute their changes to the linux kernel, but the problem is that the hardware only runs a kernel that has been signed by the hardware manufacturer. That means that you can compile a new kernel using their changes, but can't load it onto the device.
TCPA is something that Intel and Windows are trying to do that would do the same thing for general-purpose computers.
That was one of the things that GPLv3 was trying to combat, but Linus doesn't want to use that license for the kernel, so there isn't much to prevent people from doing that in the future.
I don't think that Linus is trying to say that people shouldn't be able to use NDISWrapper, just that if you use it, your kernel isn't a pure "gpl only" kernel.
IIRC, that matters to people trying to report a bug: if your kernel isn't GPLONLY, then you will have a much harder time trying to get anyone to do anything about a crash. I think that is correct, since with NDISWrapper you just loaded a big blob of who-knows-what into the kernel, which can't help stability.
Personally, I dislike wrappers like that, which I have to use for the flash plugin on my AMD64 computer. It allows companies to say "yeah, we support AMD64, just run our plugin in this wrapper", which fails quite often. Linux isn't only on i686, so why should we accept binary blobs of code for that processor?
It's not as if the US rules the planet, there are plenty of ways to continue working without their say-so or approval. Just move to a free locationa and continue with your legitimate business.
Bush and congress are trying to fix that. Welcome to Amerika; lets us make a copy of the data on your laptop, show us your papers, and watch what you say outside of a free-speech zone.
Ah, that is one (of the very, very many) problems with the "cartridge plane": you have to buy enough cartridge-carrying planes to replace the entire fleet, and then at least 2* that in cartridges. No reason it couldn't be phased in, but yeah, it might be easier to just buy more planes, at least in the short term. Too bad most companies live for the short term, and ignore the long term.
What about having a seating area near the gate that duplicates the seating arrangement on the plane? You require people to sit there in the correct place, and then you can easily pull people out of the temporary seating area in the correct order. (You would have to make it big enough for any plane type that is going to be serviced at that gate, and then only seats that exist on the plane are used)
Or an even more interesting, but harder to do version: have the seats on the plane be on a "seat sled" that is swapped out, so that people board the sled before the plane is even there, and then you just swap sleds between the plane. You then let the arriving people depart. (Something about having most of the airframe be doors is probably the weakness of this idea). Or you could have more of the stuff be in the sled, like the entire pressurized compartment, including the galley and bathrooms. Call it the "people magazine".
Rebooting usually fixes the symptoms of a problem, unless it is a problem that shows up at startup. This is usually true regardless of the OS.
Fixing the problem is different. Rebooting usually never actually fixes the problem, unless something in startup/shutdown changes the configuration. If it is very rare that the problem would show up, then rebooting would make it seem like you fixed it.
It is just that you are much more likely to be able to fix the problem in Linux due to the greater control/access you have to critical system components.
There are very much files that the existence of the file is illegal: "Illegal pictures"
Specifically, pictures of people under 18 years of age in certain states of undress, or having sex.
What is worse is when the act itself is legal, but a picture of that act is illegal, like a 17 year old taking a picture of their genitals.
My big problem with having entire categories of illegal files is that it is easy to frame someone. Just copy some files off a memory card, or spam someone with images, and then they can be charged with several felonies.
Sexual assault is something else, and that should be illegal. But someone taking a picture of themselves and then because of that getting convicted of a felony? That is just insane
The Power Squid or PowerSquid Surge are better, since you can get the same amount of outlets for cheaper, and they can be plugged into larger wall-warts easier. Even better is that you can often get the Power Squid for free from ThinkGeek through the geekpoints program.
This/. advertisement is just silly, this isn't news, and is barely stuff that matters.
Agreed. Releasing a book online as a bunch of over compressed JPEG files is just stupid. JPEG and text just do not go together, unless you have quality=100%. It would have been much better if they had used png, gif, or svg.
It is just a tiny bit better than using a photograph of each page, but only slightly.
What is wrong with pdf, or even.txt?
This has FAIL written all over it, in the bleeding edges of the text.
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Unless you spam the invitations to random people as well.
Then you have problems with just deleting the "root node" account and all of its children. Easier to get rid of a bunch of accounts, but still problematic.
No, what they are doing is Traffic Forgery. They were forging packets to get the connections to stop. Forgery is something we shouldn't tolerate in any form, especially when it is from the ISP who is perfectly placed to do a Man-in-the-middle attack on traffic.
They weren't doing any kind of classic traffic shaping, since that takes much more processing power to do.
The argument is that theft or stealing is "taking something, depriving the affected person of something"
Copyright infringement is "making a duplication"
There is a subtle, but important difference: if something is stolen from you, you don't have it, and the thief does. If something you made gets the copyright infringed upon, you still have your creation.
Second System Effect. Basically, you make a first version that is lean, does a few things well, and release that. Then in the second system you add a bunch of "it would be cool if..." things, making the second version huge, bloated, and not as good as the first version.
Vista, as compared to Windows 2000, for a big example.
ANYTHING that would slow down congress would be a good idea, IMO.
My idea was to require a quorum to be there while the entire bill was read out loud before being voted on, and only the form that was read aloud could be voted on.
But, you idea of a line-item voting is probably better, except it doesn't prevent one thing: someone wedging the "Yes" button.
When the wikileaks.org url is put back online, could they seek compensation for the lost time that they suffered as a result of that ruling?
Or could I short some stock in a company, sue them for hosting sensitive/"evil" information, and then buy the stock back when the domain gets turned into a blank page? (Use any online company here, something like child-porn on flickr would be an easy target)
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I agree with you, but the problem is that several companies are already doing something quite similar, and it is called TiVoization
Fon, TiVo, and a few other companies distribute devices that run a linux kernel. To be compliant with GPLv2 they distribute their changes to the linux kernel, but the problem is that the hardware only runs a kernel that has been signed by the hardware manufacturer. That means that you can compile a new kernel using their changes, but can't load it onto the device.
TCPA is something that Intel and Windows are trying to do that would do the same thing for general-purpose computers.
That was one of the things that GPLv3 was trying to combat, but Linus doesn't want to use that license for the kernel, so there isn't much to prevent people from doing that in the future.
Yep, and even with the wrapper it crashes about 25% of the time I try to use it.
That isn't always a bad thing, since browsing without flash is quite nice, almost all of the time.
I don't think that Linus is trying to say that people shouldn't be able to use NDISWrapper, just that if you use it, your kernel isn't a pure "gpl only" kernel.
IIRC, that matters to people trying to report a bug: if your kernel isn't GPLONLY, then you will have a much harder time trying to get anyone to do anything about a crash. I think that is correct, since with NDISWrapper you just loaded a big blob of who-knows-what into the kernel, which can't help stability.
Personally, I dislike wrappers like that, which I have to use for the flash plugin on my AMD64 computer. It allows companies to say "yeah, we support AMD64, just run our plugin in this wrapper", which fails quite often. Linux isn't only on i686, so why should we accept binary blobs of code for that processor?
Bush and congress are trying to fix that. Welcome to Amerika; lets us make a copy of the data on your laptop, show us your papers, and watch what you say outside of a free-speech zone.
Yep, mixed-mode human transportation. That could do to human transportation what containers did to transporting goods.
Ah, that is one (of the very, very many) problems with the "cartridge plane": you have to buy enough cartridge-carrying planes to replace the entire fleet, and then at least 2* that in cartridges. No reason it couldn't be phased in, but yeah, it might be easier to just buy more planes, at least in the short term. Too bad most companies live for the short term, and ignore the long term.
What about having a seating area near the gate that duplicates the seating arrangement on the plane?
You require people to sit there in the correct place, and then you can easily pull people out of the temporary seating area in the correct order.
(You would have to make it big enough for any plane type that is going to be serviced at that gate, and then only seats that exist on the plane are used)
Or an even more interesting, but harder to do version: have the seats on the plane be on a "seat sled" that is swapped out, so that people board the sled before the plane is even there, and then you just swap sleds between the plane. You then let the arriving people depart. (Something about having most of the airframe be doors is probably the weakness of this idea). Or you could have more of the stuff be in the sled, like the entire pressurized compartment, including the galley and bathrooms. Call it the "people magazine".
Rebooting usually fixes the symptoms of a problem, unless it is a problem that shows up at startup. This is usually true regardless of the OS.
Fixing the problem is different. Rebooting usually never actually fixes the problem, unless something in startup/shutdown changes the configuration. If it is very rare that the problem would show up, then rebooting would make it seem like you fixed it.
It is just that you are much more likely to be able to fix the problem in Linux due to the greater control/access you have to critical system components.
There are very much files that the existence of the file is illegal:
"Illegal pictures"
Specifically, pictures of people under 18 years of age in certain states of undress, or having sex.
What is worse is when the act itself is legal, but a picture of that act is illegal, like a 17 year old taking a picture of their genitals.
My big problem with having entire categories of illegal files is that it is easy to frame someone. Just copy some files off a memory card, or spam someone with images, and then they can be charged with several felonies.
Sexual assault is something else, and that should be illegal. But someone taking a picture of themselves and then because of that getting convicted of a felony? That is just insane
And then what percentage of that 99.4% is a) going to get HIV, and b) is at risk for HIV?
Isn't that the entire point of what the publisher is trying to do?
Give you a taste of the book, to entice you to buy it?
The Power Squid or PowerSquid Surge are better, since you can get the same amount of outlets for cheaper, and they can be plugged into larger wall-warts easier. Even better is that you can often get the Power Squid for free from ThinkGeek through the geekpoints program.
/. advertisement is just silly, this isn't news, and is barely stuff that matters.
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Agreed.
.txt?
Releasing a book online as a bunch of over compressed JPEG files is just stupid. JPEG and text just do not go together, unless you have quality=100%. It would have been much better if they had used png, gif, or svg.
It is just a tiny bit better than using a photograph of each page, but only slightly.
What is wrong with pdf, or even
This has FAIL written all over it, in the bleeding edges of the text.
Unless you spam the invitations to random people as well.
Then you have problems with just deleting the "root node" account and all of its children. Easier to get rid of a bunch of accounts, but still problematic.
A "porn for solving captcha" website would be one way that you could have "group intelligence" do your work, as opposed to "artificial intelligence".
Sort of like making a bot-net of humans. Living zombies, anyone?
The value of anything and everything that includes the specific IP?
Or would having the trademark of every character in a cartoon be worth the value of the whole cartoon be a problem?
How else could you start dividing it up?
No, what they are doing is Traffic Forgery. They were forging packets to get the connections to stop. Forgery is something we shouldn't tolerate in any form, especially when it is from the ISP who is perfectly placed to do a Man-in-the-middle attack on traffic.
They weren't doing any kind of classic traffic shaping, since that takes much more processing power to do.
The argument is that theft or stealing is "taking something, depriving the affected person of something"
Copyright infringement is "making a duplication"
There is a subtle, but important difference: if something is stolen from you, you don't have it, and the thief does. If something you made gets the copyright infringed upon, you still have your creation.
Yes, and that would be called a Hostile takeover.
Second System Effect. Basically, you make a first version that is lean, does a few things well, and release that. Then in the second system you add a bunch of "it would be cool if..." things, making the second version huge, bloated, and not as good as the first version.
Vista, as compared to Windows 2000, for a big example.
No, you just need to add one more line to those shirts:
"Sorry I doubted you Micro$oft".
They did act as we expected, after all.
Exactly, and paper is also a risk when it is used with a bunch of tubes
Sharing files without permission is.
/. summary isn't. Big surprise there...)
"File sharing" is just a technology that lets people share files.
When it is used to share files without authorization legal issues come up, with copyright violation being the top one.
But, if I share a Ubuntu ISO over a file sharing program, no laws anywhere are being broken.
Can we please be more specific? With specificity, it is hard to have an argument.
(The article is correct, the
ANYTHING that would slow down congress would be a good idea, IMO.
My idea was to require a quorum to be there while the entire bill was read out loud before being voted on, and only the form that was read aloud could be voted on.
But, you idea of a line-item voting is probably better, except it doesn't prevent one thing: someone wedging the "Yes" button.
When the wikileaks.org url is put back online, could they seek compensation for the lost time that they suffered as a result of that ruling?
Or could I short some stock in a company, sue them for hosting sensitive/"evil" information, and then buy the stock back when the domain gets turned into a blank page? (Use any online company here, something like child-porn on flickr would be an easy target)