Such a backwards society we live in, when technology is available and safe, and we delay in implementation.
Oh, on some day you'll yet see, when "greens" will oppose fusion reactors. You know - they're nuclear, too, although totally different kind of and renewable. But it's just this "The word 'nuclear' makes me nervous" stuff - people can't see any kind of difference between different nuclear reactor types (this vs. Chernobyl-like reactors), as they can't see the difference between AOL and the internet, or PC and Windows. Thus, no room for innovations, unless you've somehow convinced an average Joe it's great - next to impossible in this matter.
Me - I consider myself as real green. Thus, I propose nuclear energy.
The songs that yoy buy from iTunes Music Store is in AAC-format, witch is a part of the MPEG-4 standard. There are no secrets, nor proprietairy formats here.
This is just plainly wrong. The AAC songs ripped with iTunes are standard MPEG-4, but those bought from iTMS have additional DRM layer wrapped around them - that is, they are proprietary - and they're encrypted, too.
The page has some weird problem. Clicking the link in IE6 triggered a question whether I want to open "fsbench.netnation(1)" directly, or save it to the disk. Same result when typing the uri manually to address bar.
No similar problems with Mozilla Firebird, though...
Should Microsoft's software be treated any differently than, say, automobiles?
No, it shouldn't. This would perhaps slow down software development a bit, but commercial software manufacturers should have similar responsibility over their products like any other industry.
Like our (Finnish) Product Responsibility Law points out (not literally but practically): "Manufacturer must repair manufacturing defects, whether the product still has warranty time left or not, or give a full refund." This should mean: "I just (2003-10-03) found critical bug from MS-DOS 1.0 - please fix it or give me my money back." (Provided that I still have the invoice or other proof of purchase somewhere.)
When it's over, SCO won't exist anymore and slashdot will run out of topics.
So MS and **AA will then have been bankrupted, too, DMCA & Patriot Act will have been pulled back, and DRM technologies will have been criminalised, right?
Fast space travelling is cool, but any kind of fighters are meant to be killing machines - I hope we'll never need to see anything like Star Wars in real life.
Besides, TIE fighter would only be the first step. claimed to be only for "defending the Homeworld". Sooner or later someone would build a Star Destroyer, too. And eventually something like Death Star.
Thinking this and the bloody history of humanity, it's best to hope that no other intelligent lifeforms will ever be found from space. Humans are known to be too hasty in loading their weapons.
Of course none of this is any kind of concern unless we're capable for inter-star travelling. That may take some time, yet...
You're right from strict geographical point of view, but, as the term "Scandinavia" is often used as a synonym for "nordic countries", including scandinavian countries + Iceland + Finland, this is same kind of mostly irrelevant detail as all the times pointing out that it's GNU/Linux and not just Linux. One could also use the term "Fennoscandinavia", which includes Finland, but AFAIK not Iceland.
Besides, Linus is Fenno-Swede, which means that his mother tongue is actually Swedish instead of Finnish, and he probably also has some Swedish relatives as well, even if they're very distant.
Disclaimer: I can do that:
kruuna% finger torvalds Login: torvalds Name: Linus Torvalds Directory:/h/9/tkol/torvalds Shell:/bin/tcsh last login on kruuna Wed Apr 5 08:23:13 2000 on pts/25 from neon-gw.transmet Mail last read Sat Feb 1 15:12:10 2003 No Plan.
Yes. The interesting thing here is, how those "regular" CD tracks are "protected". Cactus-style redbook errors? Unclosed sessions, like on key2audio discs? Nobody is really interested of the WMA-content, people only want to find a way around the "protection", so that they can rip the CDA tracks off and create a new, noncrippled disc of them.
True, but despite the lacking buttons apple's mouse has one advantage over MS one: It has a power switch, and that's damn important feature in portable use - at least in my opinion, and im writing this with my 12" PBook having MS BT mouse paired to my box right now.
True - but that is rather easy to avoid, too. It is perfectly possible to learn one extremely strong password (like combination of 9-10 random characters inluding capitalised lettes and numbers), and not write it up anywhere. Now nobody simply can't get it, unless you're tortured by North Korea officials or speak it aloud when you're asleep.;-)
Granted, some NSA could probably find a way to crack your keychain if the device posessing it (a laptop, a USB key) gets stolen, but unless you're a member of a foreign intelligence agency, your name is actually bin Laden, or something similar, you should not have any real need to be that paranoid.
...and tell you if you forgot them. Your duty is only to remember the master password. That's called Keychain, and is provided by Mac OS X.
For extra security you can also put your keychain to an USB key along with your GPG & SSH keys, and keep it away from your computer when you're not using it.
You've got a Windows box? Sorry. I'm quite sure there are some similar solutions for Linux out there, though.
7 comments and already slashdotted. They must be running some new Gnome 2.4 based version of Apache...
"To compete better against Microsoft IIS, we've decided to make a version of Apache, which is completely GUI-based and requires at least Gnome 2.4 to run"
Now when you said it, I have to agree. I think I actually have seen that definition before, too. But the GNU license page just popped into my mind instantly, and I didn't just remember the page you pointed out.
Unfortunately, it doesn't always work anymore. I've an Apple 12" PBook with Matshita UJ-815 DVD-R drive, which refuses to read the VOBs on DVDs if the disc region differs from drive's one even with libdvdcss under Linux. Videolan mailing list has a post explaining this. Needless to say, I was really pissed off when I realized that I can no longer watch my R1 discs except with my region-cracked standalone player. And no, no firmware cracks out there either.
So, he added, if there are intellectual property transgressions, they are easier to track....and community will replace it, when you told them where is it. But SCO wants nothing but sue.
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Such a backwards society we live in, when technology is available and safe, and we delay in implementation.
Oh, on some day you'll yet see, when "greens" will oppose fusion reactors. You know - they're nuclear, too, although totally different kind of and renewable. But it's just this "The word 'nuclear' makes me nervous" stuff - people can't see any kind of difference between different nuclear reactor types (this vs. Chernobyl-like reactors), as they can't see the difference between AOL and the internet, or PC and Windows. Thus, no room for innovations, unless you've somehow convinced an average Joe it's great - next to impossible in this matter.
Me - I consider myself as real green. Thus, I propose nuclear energy.
...nothing is enough for them!
First, they conquered 10% of our territory during WWII, as they wouldn't have had enough already. Now, they're hijacking our uni department, too!
Couldn't they just go and download some MS stuff from KaZaa?
The songs that yoy buy from iTunes Music Store is in AAC-format, witch is a part of the MPEG-4 standard. There are no secrets, nor proprietairy formats here.
This is just plainly wrong. The AAC songs ripped with iTunes are standard MPEG-4, but those bought from iTMS have additional DRM layer wrapped around them - that is, they are proprietary - and they're encrypted, too.
The page has some weird problem. Clicking the link in IE6 triggered a question whether I want to open "fsbench.netnation(1)" directly, or save it to the disk. Same result when typing the uri manually to address bar.
No similar problems with Mozilla Firebird, though...
...unless you can explain this.
Not that I'd trust that AC either, but be on your guard anyway.
Should Microsoft's software be treated any differently than, say, automobiles?
No, it shouldn't. This would perhaps slow down software development a bit, but commercial software manufacturers should have similar responsibility over their products like any other industry.
Like our (Finnish) Product Responsibility Law points out (not literally but practically): "Manufacturer must repair manufacturing defects, whether the product still has warranty time left or not, or give a full refund." This should mean: "I just (2003-10-03) found critical bug from MS-DOS 1.0 - please fix it or give me my money back." (Provided that I still have the invoice or other proof of purchase somewhere.)
When it's over, SCO won't exist anymore and slashdot will run out of topics.
So MS and **AA will then have been bankrupted, too, DMCA & Patriot Act will have been pulled back, and DRM technologies will have been criminalised, right?
...and actually that they'll never appear.
Fast space travelling is cool, but any kind of fighters are meant to be killing machines - I hope we'll never need to see anything like Star Wars in real life.
Besides, TIE fighter would only be the first step. claimed to be only for "defending the Homeworld". Sooner or later someone would build a Star Destroyer, too. And eventually something like Death Star.
Thinking this and the bloody history of humanity, it's best to hope that no other intelligent lifeforms will ever be found from space. Humans are known to be too hasty in loading their weapons.
Of course none of this is any kind of concern unless we're capable for inter-star travelling. That may take some time, yet...
Besides, Linus is Fenno-Swede, which means that his mother tongue is actually Swedish instead of Finnish, and he probably also has some Swedish relatives as well, even if they're very distant.
Disclaimer: I can do that:
Yes. The interesting thing here is, how those "regular" CD tracks are "protected". Cactus-style redbook errors? Unclosed sessions, like on key2audio discs? Nobody is really interested of the WMA-content, people only want to find a way around the "protection", so that they can rip the CDA tracks off and create a new, noncrippled disc of them.
May be public and political awareness finally start to rise.
So keep going, ACLU! (I'm an EU citizen myself, though.)
True, but despite the lacking buttons apple's mouse has one advantage over MS one: It has a power switch, and that's damn important feature in portable use - at least in my opinion, and im writing this with my 12" PBook having MS BT mouse paired to my box right now.
...and perhaps the judgement day is tomorrow.
True - but that is rather easy to avoid, too. It is perfectly possible to learn one extremely strong password (like combination of 9-10 random characters inluding capitalised lettes and numbers), and not write it up anywhere. Now nobody simply can't get it, unless you're tortured by North Korea officials or speak it aloud when you're asleep. ;-)
Granted, some NSA could probably find a way to crack your keychain if the device posessing it (a laptop, a USB key) gets stolen, but unless you're a member of a foreign intelligence agency, your name is actually bin Laden, or something similar, you should not have any real need to be that paranoid.
...and tell you if you forgot them. Your duty is only to remember the master password. That's called Keychain, and is provided by Mac OS X.
For extra security you can also put your keychain to an USB key along with your GPG & SSH keys, and keep it away from your computer when you're not using it.
You've got a Windows box? Sorry. I'm quite sure there are some similar solutions for Linux out there, though.
If you notice this is based on PEAK Performance,
So, which of their models it is based on?
Oh, wait...
"if major companies were as routinely screwed by this law as the little guy, the DMCA would be a memory."
*cough* SCO? *cough*
I think you'd better pick up an english dictionary and check the definiton for the word major.
But seriously thinking, true.
7 comments and already slashdotted. They must be running some new Gnome 2.4 based version of Apache...
"To compete better against Microsoft IIS, we've decided to make a version of Apache, which is completely GUI-based and requires at least Gnome 2.4 to run"
Like those in Phantom Menace, when they travel through the Naboo core? I've always said Lucas must have seen those fishes somewhere!
Now when you said it, I have to agree.
;)
I think I actually have seen that definition before, too. But the GNU license page just popped into my mind instantly, and I didn't just remember the page you pointed out.
Prepare to get modded up.
The article seems to be pretty concentrated to OSS community. But how about GNU's definition of OSS?
Personally, I think its the license, which answers the question.
...of the absurd U.S. patent system. And now we here in EU are gonna get something similar. Great indeed.
Hadn't Microsoft just done the same when they compared Windows SMB performance against Red Hat. Sad to see Apple is using same crappy methods.
Unfortunately, it doesn't always work anymore. I've an Apple 12" PBook with Matshita UJ-815 DVD-R drive, which refuses to read the VOBs on DVDs if the disc region differs from drive's one even with libdvdcss under Linux.
Videolan mailing list has a post explaining this. Needless to say, I was really pissed off when I realized that I can no longer watch my R1 discs except with my region-cracked standalone player.
And no, no firmware cracks out there either.
So, he added, if there are intellectual property transgressions, they are easier to track. ...and community will replace it, when you told them where is it. But SCO wants nothing but sue.