A lot of people are going to read that "pawns" speech and, well, freak out. And he just goes on and on and on. Just when you think it couldn't get any more obnoxious...
I couldn't even read half of it, I was laughing so hard. It's like listening to your drunk brother go on and on about how the wife that just dumped you was a lousy lay anyway.
''(c) LOCAL GOVERNMENT PROVISION OF ADVANCED
COMMUNICATIONS CAPABILITY AND SERVICES.--No State
statute, regulation, or other State legal requirement may
prohibit or have the effect of prohibiting any public provider from providing, to any person or any public or private entity, advanced telecommunications capability or any service that utilizes the advanced telecommunications capability provided by such public provider.
There is no way the communications giants would let that pass.
Thank you. I was a trolling, sort of. This is the explanation I was trying to elicit -- what the thing really is, because frankly the original poster and I have no idea, and the website is not forthcoming.
Um, I didn't say they weren't really cool applets? Why would I call it a servlet container? It's a fork of apache. To humans, that means it's a webserver.
The parent is suffering from infectious gibberish. I'm coming down with a bit of it myself after browsing Big Blue for your answer. If my debabbleizer is working it's a fork of the Apache webserver and some java applets. Apparently it costs from $2k-$16K per server CPU, so no doubt a salesman will be along shortly to educate us both on what wonderfully synergistic applets they are, how it's an "application framework" for Web 2.0 and yadda yadda.
It seems they have some sort of pricing voodoo going on. Example:
With this announcement IBM is introducing Value Unit based pricing for the products referenced. Value Unit based pricing will help to align the prices of these products to the principle of the PSLC pricing curve which provides for a lower price per MSU for larger capacities. There will also be a price benefit when customers grow their capacity. Additional capacity will be based on the number of Value Units (MSUs) the customer has already installed. Additional capacity will not be priced starting at the base with a higher price per unit but on the capacity that is already installed.
Proof of entitlements (PoEs) will be based on new Value Units. Value Units of a given product cannot be exchanged/interchanged/aggregated with Value Units of another product.
Anyway it's a webserver and some applets. Here's a direct link to the list of stuff that's been stuffed into the Websphere brand envelope: SW By category
If they're running their website on it I feel sorry for their customers trying to do ecommerce -- getting a price is impossible, you can't proceed from the product page to the purchase, it keeps asking where I'm from, etc. etc.
But my heart really goes out to the poor soul that's got to translate that gibberish into meaningful chinese. I love IBM, but American Geek is my mother tongue and I can't make out what they're saying here.
It's just virtualization. The website has screenshots of XP running in a VM under OS/2.
This is an application of some of the simplest principles of computer science.
Basically the idea is that any function that is computable can be computed by a machine that is Turing Complete.
The applied corrolary is that anything one program/machine can do, another machine/program can do.
Alan Turing is considered the father of modern computer science (please, no Ada Lovelace flames! I'm not clueless.)
Generally speaking, Turing synthesis is the reason why DRM cannot possibly work. The proof is left as an exercise. Also, applications of his work go far abroad of computer science.
Someone needs to explain bittorrent to them
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From their download page:
* Note: Even though we provide BitTorrents to allow for easier downloads, we do not currently permit redistribution of the VirtualBox binaries above. See the Licensing FAQ for details. This restriction does not, of course, apply to the Open Source Edition (OSE) below.
Obviously the don't quite get how bittorrent works.
The people who make happy meal toys don't seem to have trouble churning out a new model every week with digital sound synthesis and mechanical movement for a few cents a unit. For people that clever getting OLPC under a hundred bucks a unit should be a snap. They should hire them.
Two replies the same. Yours is marginally better, so here we go.
are you talking about embedded image links that have recipient-specific parameters in them
There are more than a dozen different specific types of mail bug that do this.
Simple: a hosted image link named for the specific message with the image hosted on a logging server.
Complex: javascript that does the same thing with css, except the part of the script that gets executed tells the server the javascript's environment. It looks innocent enough because it's just selecting the right css for your rendering engine.
The current news articles about the HP spying issue often contain backgrounders on the ecosystem that has sprung up to exploit these weakenesses and offer the exploits as a service. It's a growth industry. When an entire industry has sprung up to offer exploits on an unnecessary and dangerous computing practice it's past time for a change.
It's entirely possible to write a text-only email client that is vulnerable to buffer-overflow exploits;
It's also possible to injure yourself on the way out to the mailbox in the morning. It's less likely if your mailbox is outside the door than if it's halfway across the country. The relative complexity of rendering text vs. html is on the same scale. There are simply so many more things to go wrong with html mail, and economy dictates the common implementation will be an external html display engine, with all the problems given in this current article.
There's nothing about HTML mail that makes this a requirement, and it's perfectly possible to have HTML mail and not have dynamic content. Again, you're blaming HTML mail for the failings of poorly-written/designed software.
In a way you're right. I am discouraged by the failings of common poorly designed mail reading software. I am also sanguine about my prospects of designing a similar and better one in the face of determined opposition to defeat it. I understand some of my limitations. Given sufficient motivation and unlimited time the evil people who are poisoning email can corrupt even the simplest possible implementation. The more complex the implementation however, the more likely they will succeed quickly and often.
Although it's possible to create a system that involves whitelist trusted connections and public key encryption which is nearly impenetrable I have to admit that any such implementation could not be called "email". The ability to use email to establish connections with strangers or reestablish lost connections is still a critical element of its success.
Now, if you want to talk about the increased bandwidth and storage...
No, I wouldn't want to do that. Bandwidth and storage are increasing at logarithmic rates. I don't have a problem with mailboxes that swell to several gigabytes. I once changed the settings on my personal mail server so a friend could email me a 650 MB ISO. Big mail I don't have a problem with. It's poison mail I don't like. If you have a problem with big mail, let me suggest that you change mail servers. I know one common server has issues with mail stores that get too big, but most of them are less limited. With free email services offering more than two gigabytes of mail storage per free account, people are becoming more and more used to large attachments and indefinite storage. Emailing grandma a 30 minute home video of Christmas morning is not a big deal. An administrator's inability to support large stores will be seen as weak.
When you open a postal mail and look at the flyer, it does not report to an anonymous sender that you've read it.
The poorly framed pictures on a postcard do not overflow a buffer in your brain, causing you to spontaneously send out truckloads of postcards containing the compromised picture and inducing you to be highly suggestible to the advances of complete strangers.
The vast majority of people who receive postal mail do not have an agent that "previews" all of their postal mail, even from random strangers, and slavishly executes all the instructions contained within it.
In short, yes, If I were designing email today, I would allow attachments but require messages be entirely text. And if I were designing the email filter, all attached files of any format would be forcibly transcoded to another format. That way the failure is more likely to occur in the restricted access filter computer than on the recipient's presumably useful computer.
That said, I live in the world as it is, and I compete to win.
Which attaches to each diode in the LCD array and captures the images.
They should give up. It's hopeless.
There are enough honest folk to sell their content to that they can make a good living. The crooks can and will always cheat. Hiring armed guards to escort and live with each recorded disc is cost prohibitive and nothing else is going to solve this problem for them. Any content that can be played can be recorded. Period. Anything one program can do, another program can do. That is not going to change ever.
They should just sell us honest folk a disc that contains the content we want in a form that is easily copied onto our home servers and transcoded into our desired format, trust us not to cheat, and be happy with the money we give them.
Yeah, they'll still sell only one copy for all of China, but that's not going to change ever either. The pirates get their content before it's even on the master of the disc we buy. Strangely, it seems they sometimes get it even before the final edit.
You open it in vlc, choose File->Wizard, select the current item and the output file and format.
Oh. You meant windows users. The ones that haven't heard of DVDDecrypter and AutoGK. I get it now.
It would be pretty hard for them to rip a DVD. And that's a shame, because it's so cool to be able to watch your dvd's on your phone, or your ipod, or on your driveless linux settop box.
Ok, HTML Emails are appalling. They're hideous, unnecessary, garish and trite. They should be blocked, banned, their purveyors and designers blacklisted.
But.. I've done it. I've manually encoded html with embedded images for sending to a client that used HTML emails internally, impressed the client and got some benefit from that.
For Windows users, anyway. Windows users need to be geeklords to get anything done at all.
Linux users whose computers don't come with the software automatically will just choose Applications->Add/Remove Software and choose "HDCrack", which by then will be a graphical frontend for mplayer. Mplayer and the cracking software will be downloaded automagically and probably will access a network of online database of title keys hosted in openness friendly countries. Thereafter when they insert a supported HD-DVD, it will just play. It will, as usual, contain ripping software for translating the content into a more accessible, device shiftable and back-up possible format.
When you run Windows, freely available (and commercial) software (and even sometimes simple media!) often comes with evil code. Linux users usually don't have to deal with that. Linux users can use trusted repositories and the free choices available are an embarassment of riches. The question isn't if the software is available, but which package best suits your goal. Access to this global pool of application resources is built in to the standard interface on most distributions.
It must be tough to be a Windows only user these days. All that going to the store and giving your credit card number to anonymous websites and all... Not knowing whether you're installing something that works, doesn't work, crashes your computer or is just a trojan horse program that surrenders your computer to anonymous remote control whether you paid for it or not. So sad. And the OS comes with absolutely no real applications, except of course the world's least secure browser. And that's just the stuff you install on purpose. Stuff that installs itself unbidden or hacks that come preinstalled by the OEM (without an OS-Only install CD!) are an entirely different level of sad.
Don't worry, though. The world understands. They expect less of you because of the poverty of your tools.
Comcast and other cable companies have a nearly unlimited budget for "lawmaker education" for this chainbreaker. Shortly after your congressman gets back from his junket to Bali to see how other countries handle this problem, he's going to introduce a bill that makes the decision of the court moot.
Oddly enough, it will be titled "The Protection of Children from Video Terrorism Act" or "Cable Television Deregulation and Child Protection Act" or "Homeland Security Budget for Fiscal 2008".
This is what you get for paying $100/mo for 157 channels of "nothing's on."
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Nobody is supposed to remember SNOBOL. There was no SNOBOL.
Choosing whether or not to go to the emergency room when you have no coverage is hard.
Telling your kids they can't have stuff you can't afford on your waitress salary is hard.
Standing on a crane hoisting icy branches off a powerline is hard.
Choosing whether to take cover or provide cover under enemy fire is hard.
Writing programs is a challenge of the sort not everyone is up to, but it is not hard.
I couldn't even read half of it, I was laughing so hard. It's like listening to your drunk brother go on and on about how the wife that just dumped you was a lousy lay anyway.
Definitely going to save this one.
It would be returned for a refund.
International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors
You can read more about it at the ITRS website.
A quick scan of the website reveals this interesting image. The observant will note that with current news progress is already ahead of their curve.
This article is worthless without pictures.
And Municipal Broadband seems unpopular with states.
There is faint hope for an opportunity in the Senate Communications Act of 2006 on page 184 of which I find:
There is no way the communications giants would let that pass.
No, won't be any of those.
Thank you. I was a trolling, sort of. This is the explanation I was trying to elicit -- what the thing really is, because frankly the original poster and I have no idea, and the website is not forthcoming.
Um, I didn't say they weren't really cool applets? Why would I call it a servlet container? It's a fork of apache. To humans, that means it's a webserver.
It seems they have some sort of pricing voodoo going on. Example:
Anyway it's a webserver and some applets. Here's a direct link to the list of stuff that's been stuffed into the Websphere brand envelope: SW By category
If they're running their website on it I feel sorry for their customers trying to do ecommerce -- getting a price is impossible, you can't proceed from the product page to the purchase, it keeps asking where I'm from, etc. etc.
But my heart really goes out to the poor soul that's got to translate that gibberish into meaningful chinese. I love IBM, but American Geek is my mother tongue and I can't make out what they're saying here.
This one looks like a winner.
This is an application of some of the simplest principles of computer science.
Basically the idea is that any function that is computable can be computed by a machine that is Turing Complete.
The applied corrolary is that anything one program/machine can do, another machine/program can do.
Alan Turing is considered the father of modern computer science (please, no Ada Lovelace flames! I'm not clueless.)
Generally speaking, Turing synthesis is the reason why DRM cannot possibly work. The proof is left as an exercise. Also, applications of his work go far abroad of computer science.
Obviously the don't quite get how bittorrent works.
The people who make happy meal toys don't seem to have trouble churning out a new model every week with digital sound synthesis and mechanical movement for a few cents a unit. For people that clever getting OLPC under a hundred bucks a unit should be a snap. They should hire them.
The current news articles about the HP spying issue often contain backgrounders on the ecosystem that has sprung up to exploit these weakenesses and offer the exploits as a service. It's a growth industry. When an entire industry has sprung up to offer exploits on an unnecessary and dangerous computing practice it's past time for a change.
It's also possible to injure yourself on the way out to the mailbox in the morning. It's less likely if your mailbox is outside the door than if it's halfway across the country. The relative complexity of rendering text vs. html is on the same scale. There are simply so many more things to go wrong with html mail, and economy dictates the common implementation will be an external html display engine, with all the problems given in this current article.
In a way you're right. I am discouraged by the failings of common poorly designed mail reading software. I am also sanguine about my prospects of designing a similar and better one in the face of determined opposition to defeat it. I understand some of my limitations. Given sufficient motivation and unlimited time the evil people who are poisoning email can corrupt even the simplest possible implementation. The more complex the implementation however, the more likely they will succeed quickly and often.
Although it's possible to create a system that involves whitelist trusted connections and public key encryption which is nearly impenetrable I have to admit that any such implementation could not be called "email". The ability to use email to establish connections with strangers or reestablish lost connections is still a critical element of its success.
No, I wouldn't want to do that. Bandwidth and storage are increasing at logarithmic rates. I don't have a problem with mailboxes that swell to several gigabytes. I once changed the settings on my personal mail server so a friend could email me a 650 MB ISO. Big mail I don't have a problem with. It's poison mail I don't like. If you have a problem with big mail, let me suggest that you change mail servers. I know one common server has issues with mail stores that get too big, but most of them are less limited. With free email services offering more than two gigabytes of mail storage per free account, people are becoming more and more used to large attachments and indefinite storage. Emailing grandma a 30 minute home video of Christmas morning is not a big deal. An administrator's inability to support large stores will be seen as weak.
The poorly framed pictures on a postcard do not overflow a buffer in your brain, causing you to spontaneously send out truckloads of postcards containing the compromised picture and inducing you to be highly suggestible to the advances of complete strangers.
The vast majority of people who receive postal mail do not have an agent that "previews" all of their postal mail, even from random strangers, and slavishly executes all the instructions contained within it.
In short, yes, If I were designing email today, I would allow attachments but require messages be entirely text. And if I were designing the email filter, all attached files of any format would be forcibly transcoded to another format. That way the failure is more likely to occur in the restricted access filter computer than on the recipient's presumably useful computer.
That said, I live in the world as it is, and I compete to win.
They should give up. It's hopeless.
There are enough honest folk to sell their content to that they can make a good living. The crooks can and will always cheat. Hiring armed guards to escort and live with each recorded disc is cost prohibitive and nothing else is going to solve this problem for them. Any content that can be played can be recorded. Period. Anything one program can do, another program can do. That is not going to change ever.
They should just sell us honest folk a disc that contains the content we want in a form that is easily copied onto our home servers and transcoded into our desired format, trust us not to cheat, and be happy with the money we give them.
Yeah, they'll still sell only one copy for all of China, but that's not going to change ever either. The pirates get their content before it's even on the master of the disc we buy. Strangely, it seems they sometimes get it even before the final edit.
Oh. You meant windows users. The ones that haven't heard of DVDDecrypter and AutoGK. I get it now.
It would be pretty hard for them to rip a DVD. And that's a shame, because it's so cool to be able to watch your dvd's on your phone, or your ipod, or on your driveless linux settop box.
But.. I've done it. I've manually encoded html with embedded images for sending to a client that used HTML emails internally, impressed the client and got some benefit from that.
sigh... I must be a bad, bad man.
Linux users whose computers don't come with the software automatically will just choose Applications->Add/Remove Software and choose "HDCrack", which by then will be a graphical frontend for mplayer. Mplayer and the cracking software will be downloaded automagically and probably will access a network of online database of title keys hosted in openness friendly countries. Thereafter when they insert a supported HD-DVD, it will just play. It will, as usual, contain ripping software for translating the content into a more accessible, device shiftable and back-up possible format.
When you run Windows, freely available (and commercial) software (and even sometimes simple media!) often comes with evil code. Linux users usually don't have to deal with that. Linux users can use trusted repositories and the free choices available are an embarassment of riches. The question isn't if the software is available, but which package best suits your goal. Access to this global pool of application resources is built in to the standard interface on most distributions.
It must be tough to be a Windows only user these days. All that going to the store and giving your credit card number to anonymous websites and all... Not knowing whether you're installing something that works, doesn't work, crashes your computer or is just a trojan horse program that surrenders your computer to anonymous remote control whether you paid for it or not. So sad. And the OS comes with absolutely no real applications, except of course the world's least secure browser. And that's just the stuff you install on purpose. Stuff that installs itself unbidden or hacks that come preinstalled by the OEM (without an OS-Only install CD!) are an entirely different level of sad.
Don't worry, though. The world understands. They expect less of you because of the poverty of your tools.
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Oddly enough, it will be titled "The Protection of Children from Video Terrorism Act" or "Cable Television Deregulation and Child Protection Act" or "Homeland Security Budget for Fiscal 2008".
This is what you get for paying $100/mo for 157 channels of "nothing's on."
I'm down with iPP. You're down with iPP. Yea, you know Wii. Get down with iPP.