Why is it that people take the path of least resistence?
That's the whole point. RIAA saw Napster as the easiest target to win a suit in, and thereby establish case precedent. Then they could go after the bigger fish, and use the ruling in RIAA v. Napster in their court filings.
In An Introduction to Operating Systems, Harvey Deitel mentions several generations of OS's. The zeroth generation "had no operating system". The First Generation was defined as sometime in the '50s as the beginnings of batch processing systems. Unfortunately, he didn't name names.
Disclaimer: I have the "Revised First Edition" from the early '80s. Deitel does a good job of explaining OS's, if he can be forgiven (in this edition at least) his IBM mainframe bias.
The "About the author" states that "Since 1965, Dr. Deitel has been interested in operating systems". This would lead me to believe that an OS existed in at least 1965.
NT 4.0 =FAILED= it's initial C3 review, due to security flaws, yet the DOD did NOT stop it's use (despite that being mandatory by their own guidelines). Before the DOD starts pointing fingers, it needs to remember where the remaining fingers go.
IIRC, the other thing to remember about Orange book security (C3/2/1,B2/1,A1) is that the rating is for a specific version on specific hardware.
In other words, let's hypothetically assume that a generic intel box is considered "specific hardware", and (even more hypothetically) assume that NT4.0 with SP3 installed is C2 rated on said generic box. Now what happens when you need to install SP6a? Or (because IE4 is "integrated") you download one of those many many IE patches? You are no longer C2 secure, because your platform changed.
in military grade systems, but I do know for a fact that some army systems use SCO Unix (ODT2.0 and OSR5.0.2). I know this because I worked on them. I know it's fashionable to bash SCO, but it does have C2, and to the DOD, that's important.
Now to bring this onto topic, now that Caldera has bought out SCO, perhaps they can provide a C2 certified version of Linux. That would probably be a big hit with the DOD guys...
That phrase is not attributed to I.A. (I'm assuming you mean Asimov), but is in fact Clarke's Third Law. Please update your.sig to reflect the proper attribution.
Clarke's First Law: When a distinguished but elderly scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he says it is impossible, he is almost certainly wrong.
Clarke's Second Law: The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
Clarke's Third Law: Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
IIRC, Kingston was the company where the founders sold the company for big Buck$$$, and instead of keeping it all for themselves, gave bonuses to all the employees. The average bounus was about $300K.
It made big news here in LA (they're based in LA County), and for some reason which I don't understand:-) they were inundated with applications the next month...
IIRC, the fact that the group velocity can be faster than light has been known for years. In Faster Than Light: Superluminal Loopholes in Physics, Nick Herbert comments on this, particularly with respect to the reflection of radio waves in the ionosphere.
"Space Station rams satellite, astronauts stuck to the wall."
Heinlein once wrote a short story using this theme. It was on the moon, and a tunnel got holed, too big for little sticky balloons to seal, so the characters used their, err... posterior portions to seal the breach till they were rescued.
but I do think there is a need to be completely honest here - DeCSS can be a tool for piracy
Let's be completely honest. A gun can be a tool for crime.
Your argument is about restricting 1st Amendment rights. Mine is about the 2nd Amendment. Courts do not ban guns just because they can be used as a tool for crime. How is DeCSS any different?
It's very easy to explain to a non-programmer, Otto. Watch (and never once will my fingers leave my hands):
A DVD is like a book written in Swedish. I, Joe Consumer, go to the store and buy the Swedish copy of the book. Now, I don't read Swedish, but since I have bought the book, I have the right to try to figure out how to read it. I go and obtain a Swedish-English dictionary. I can now read said book. If I wanted to pirate that book, I did not need to translate it, but simply photocopy the original Swedish.
DeCSS is like the Swedish-English dictionary. It lets me read the encrypted material on a CD I have purchased. In this case, encryption is equivalent to having been written in a foreign language. It is irrelevant to copying. If I wanted to pirate copyrighted materials (which I don't), I could do a bit-by-bit copy of the encrypted movie to a DVD blank. DeCSS is not required.
See, I bet even Joe Sixpack could understand that.
Is there any other industry other than the entertainment industry that insults it's clients by flat out assuming that they are criminals?
I think that this will have to go to the Supreme Court now. We have two courts in two different jurisdictions with differing opinions on an important Constitutional issue, to wit, "Is Source Code Speech, which is protected under the First Amendment?"
In the Bernstein case, a court in California (part of the 9th Circuit) said yes, Source Code is speech. In this case, a court in New York (don't know the Circuit, anybody know?) said no. Given that this is a major constitutional issue, and that courts in two separate circuits disagree, the Supreme Court almost has to take this issue.
This is true. Believe it or not, Bridge is being considered as a demonstration sport for the 2002 Winter Olympics.
Now, I'm a bridge player, affilitated with the American Contract Bridge League, but I find it hard to figure out how Bridge fits into the Olympics, given the Olympic motto of "Swifter, Higher, Stronger".
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It is also a bad reflection on the Pentium 4's power consumption - and Intel want to put this baby in laptops by the end of next year!
All P4 laptops will ship with an asbestos pad!
Why is it that people take the path of least resistence?
That's the whole point. RIAA saw Napster as the easiest target to win a suit in, and thereby establish case precedent. Then they could go after the bigger fish, and use the ruling in RIAA v. Napster in their court filings.
In An Introduction to Operating Systems, Harvey Deitel mentions several generations of OS's. The zeroth generation "had no operating system". The First Generation was defined as sometime in the '50s as the beginnings of batch processing systems. Unfortunately, he didn't name names.
Disclaimer: I have the "Revised First Edition" from the early '80s. Deitel does a good job of explaining OS's, if he can be forgiven (in this edition at least) his IBM mainframe bias.
The "About the author" states that "Since 1965, Dr. Deitel has been interested in operating systems". This would lead me to believe that an OS existed in at least 1965.
A friend of mine has as his .sig:
The most exciting thing to hear in science, the one that leads to most discoveries, isn't "Eureka", but instead is "That's funny..."
NT 4.0 =FAILED= it's initial C3 review, due to security flaws, yet the DOD did NOT stop it's use (despite that being mandatory by their own guidelines). Before the DOD starts pointing fingers, it needs to remember where the remaining fingers go.
IIRC, the other thing to remember about Orange book security (C3/2/1,B2/1,A1) is that the rating is for a specific version on specific hardware.
In other words, let's hypothetically assume that a generic intel box is considered "specific hardware", and (even more hypothetically) assume that NT4.0 with SP3 installed is C2 rated on said generic box. Now what happens when you need to install SP6a? Or (because IE4 is "integrated") you download one of those many many IE patches? You are no longer C2 secure, because your platform changed.
in military grade systems, but I do know for a fact that some army systems use SCO Unix (ODT2.0 and OSR5.0.2). I know this because I worked on them. I know it's fashionable to bash SCO, but it does have C2, and to the DOD, that's important.
Now to bring this onto topic, now that Caldera has bought out SCO, perhaps they can provide a C2 certified version of Linux. That would probably be a big hit with the DOD guys...
That phrase is not attributed to I.A. (I'm assuming you mean Asimov), but is in fact Clarke's Third Law. Please update your
From The Lost Worlds of 2001, page 189:
Clarke's First Law: When a distinguished but elderly scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he says it is impossible, he is almost certainly wrong.
Clarke's Second Law: The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
Clarke's Third Law: Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Pedantically yours,
Sconeu
I didn't notice... was IBM Xenix 1.00 and 2.00 there? I still have one copy of each lying around the lab at work somewhere...
There is a short line for Basic starting in 1964.
The funny thing is that Judge Patel is the same judge who apparently "Got It"(tm) and issued the Bernstein ruling on crypto.
IIRC, Kingston was the company where the founders sold the company for big Buck$$$, and instead of keeping it all for themselves, gave bonuses to all the employees. The average bounus was about $300K.
:-) they were inundated with applications the next month...
It made big news here in LA (they're based in LA County), and for some reason which I don't understand
I'd better go get a trademark on that!
-- Sconeu
IIRC, the fact that the group velocity can be faster than light has been known for years. In Faster Than Light: Superluminal Loopholes in Physics, Nick Herbert comments on this, particularly with respect to the reflection of radio waves in the ionosphere.
I seem to recall seeing it here on SlashDot... Unfortunately, I don't remember the URL...
The original IBM 101 key keyboard. Just enough tactile feedback without being "clacky".
Anyone remember Intel late unlamented 432? The things with Itanium sound awfully familiar...
I wonder how much Caldera's purchase of SCO had to do with this..
Remember, this was a joint venture with SCO.
"Space Station rams satellite, astronauts stuck to the wall."
Heinlein once wrote a short story using this theme. It was on the moon, and a tunnel got holed, too big for little sticky balloons to seal, so the characters used their, err... posterior portions to seal the breach till they were rescued.
Wait a sec, photons have no mass! Therefore, they have no momentum!
BZZZT! And thank you for playing. Here's your lovely parting gift. Photons do have momentum,
p = E/c, or
p = hv/c
but I do think there is a need to be completely honest here - DeCSS can be a tool for piracy
Let's be completely honest. A gun can be a tool for crime.
Your argument is about restricting 1st Amendment rights. Mine is about the 2nd Amendment. Courts do not ban guns just because they can be used as a tool for crime. How is DeCSS any different?
It was the 9th Circuit. The case was a California case. Bernstein v. somebody-or-other (probably either Reno or US).
See, I bet even Joe Sixpack could understand that.
Is there any other industry other than the entertainment industry that insults it's clients by flat out assuming that they are criminals?
ObDisclaimer: IANAL.
I think that this will have to go to the Supreme Court now. We have two courts in two different jurisdictions with differing opinions on an important Constitutional issue, to wit, "Is Source Code Speech, which is protected under the First Amendment?"
In the Bernstein case, a court in California (part of the 9th Circuit) said yes, Source Code is speech. In this case, a court in New York (don't know the Circuit, anybody know?) said no. Given that this is a major constitutional issue, and that courts in two separate circuits disagree, the Supreme Court almost has to take this issue.
This is true. Believe it or not, Bridge is being considered as a demonstration sport for the 2002 Winter Olympics.
Now, I'm a bridge player, affilitated with the American Contract Bridge League, but I find it hard to figure out how Bridge fits into the Olympics, given the Olympic motto of "Swifter, Higher, Stronger".
Hey, you stole my .sig!
Scott