Actually - it is possible to do, it comes down to routing protocols.
There are a few problems to do good routing:
The address allocations aren't reflecting the topology of the network, it has just been growing organically. Therefore the routing tables are horrible.
Routing protocols were designed for robustness and not for the most effective path. Robustness and effectiveness intersect so we do have a relatively good network anyway. Some protocols are better than others too, and there are other that are proprietary that could have been used (like EIGRP) but aren't since not all manufacturers have implemented them.
Effective routing needs processing power. To limit the utilization of a processor in a router the processing is often optimized by caching. This means that even if you have two parallel lines and haven't disabled the caching you will effectively only use one line. It is possible to disable the caching.
Network topology is important to get right. To avoid circular routing of packets the general setup is to make star-shaped networks. This is really from the performance point of view an ineffective setup. It also means that even if you live in Boston and are going to transfer a file to your neighbor across the street the packets can be doing a turnaround in Philadelphia just to switch between ISP:s. And that's bad for the overall network performance.
I actually did surprise a guy once because he expected a file transfer to take about two hours and he didn't know that I had disabled the routing cache for those two parallel lines that we had to the other site and when the transfer ended in under an hour he suspected something was wrong, but the entire file was there. Then I told him... It made my day that day! The parallel lines were only 64k lines and the router weren't that loaded so it made sense to disable the cache in that case.
Oh sure - but if a professor makes out the rules his/her own way that professor wouldn't be very popular or long-lived when it comes to lecturing.
It's the kind of person that will get a special room in the basement where they can continue to do their research and take on any student that dares to approach.
And even recording a lecture may actually let the copyright fall on the recording party and not the lecturer.
Go figure if you are recording a nature event like a bird - does the copyright on that movie go to you or to the bird?
Or if you make a movie of some people doing a demonstration. Is it you or the people that get the copyright on that work?
And don't forget that a lecture is fact filtered through the lecturer's view. And a recording will only catch that view from the view that the recording position will provide. This means that any different angle or position in the lecturing hall will provide a different view and therefore be a different work.
And unless it's explicitly forbidden to record a lecture it will therefore mean that you may record it. But some may argue that it should be the other way around - you may never be able or allowed to record anything without a written permission - which means that we are going into a dark future. Owning a pen or pencil will be licensed, knowing how to read is controlled by the government or the big corporations. Thought police everywhere.
The "Freedom to Read (watch)" should be derived of the "Freedom of Speech".
And don't forget - by writing the things down you will actually engage your brain much more and therefore improve the learning of what's taught.
If notes were to be illegal then the students will learn less and therefore be of less use for the society in the future.
Too much emphasis is made on copyright and patents today so the only profession left where you can make money will be as a patent or copyright lawyer. And since those that are applying and help to make the law are often lawyers themselves this will be a perpetual wheel.
"Users who reject open source for technical, legal or business reasons might find themselves unintentionally using open source despite their opposition.'"
I just fail to understand the technical reason argument for not using Open Source. If an open source application alternative doesn't exist it's more of a practical reason than a technical.
As for legal and business reason - that will be a sure way to be left behind and get excessive costs mounting without any gain.
One problem for open source in the future will be patent trolls. Maybe it's time to go troll hunting and see if they have collected a stash of gold that can be put to better use.
If you have read the book you may recognize that there are references to the Hajj, so maybe some actors with Arabic heritage should be incorporated.
Even if Will Smith isn't that bad it may not be a good idea to incorporate him in such a movie - there will be too many associations with MIB.
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I personally liked the old one directed by David Lynch. That movie did leave sections out, which unfortunately made it a bit thin compared to the book.
But I still think that any new movie has to be measured against this. As I have understood it that movie was cut down quite a bit. I heard that there was 8 hours cut out of the original filming. But I suspect that some of it were bad scenes and duplicates and that the remaining parts have been destroyed by now so a "full version" or anything else may be lost to the void.
But another question is - Why redo that book again? Let us see some other of the well-known authors filmed. Asimov's "Nightfall", Gordon Dickson's "Way of the Pilgrim", Frederick Pohl's "Gateway", Heinlein's "Stranger in a Strange Land" (which gave us the word "Grok") or "Citizen of the Galaxy", Keith Laumer's "Galactic Odyssey", Jack Vance's "The Demon Princes", Alfred Bester's "The Stars My Destination", Jack McDevitt's "A Talent for War", Brian Aldiss epic "Helliconia", Christopher Anvil's "Pandora's Planet", Steven Gould's "Helm", Alfred Elton van Vogt's "The Empire of Isher".
There are also books that are better suited for TV series of course. Gordon Dickson's Dorsai books and the many Sector General stories from James White.
And there are books/authors that has produced enough material to allow creation of an epic series that sure could take on Star Wars (but sure be very different) like Iain M Banks Culture novels, the "Hope" series of David Feintuch, Asimov's foundation books, Orson Scott Card's "Ender's Game" and following books.
But maybe this just indicates that Hollywood needs to play it safe - but I think that they play it too safe in this case. One movie that's available on DVD still and the mini-series that was released a few years ago must surely have blunted the market for a third movie on the same story.
I have done a few good ones, but none this year (no time).
Once I created a CD with the AROS OS and booted a coworkers PC with it. Caused some confusion because that wasn't the ordinary Windows UI...
Another was when there was an emerging reorganization where I was working and they were running late and April 1:st came up and I took a few minutes with PowerPoint and went wild drawing a plausible but wild organization chart and then sent a group email to about 100 persons... At least nobody blamed me - even as I was the sender... One of the managers actually thought that it was a good one!
Changing someones mobile phone to Finnish is also a nice one... The boring thing is that the number of languages in most modern phones are so limited. You get a different set depending on which market the phone is sold on.
Not all ISO standards has become de facto standards, so the winner is still not decided.
Since the HD-DVD/BlueRay war is over we need a new. PC v.s. Mac is a long dead one, only a few die-hard Mac freaks are still using real Macs (not the x86 ones). See this as a battle in the Ms vs Open Source war.
Just too bad that the GUI:s like KDE and Gnome are so Windows-like. And I really think that CDE should have gone open source - just for the sake of it.
Instead they use proxies like BSA, SCO and others to make the times miserable for everyone else.
The OOXML mess isn't helping them either.
And the copy protection scheme they have is just making things harder for the legitimate users. The pirates and others doesn't care about the protection technology and cracks it soon enough anyway.
I suspect that the upcoming versions of software from M$ is going to require TPM chips in our computers to work. But that will probably also make them even more alienated.
The term "old tech" is a bit misguiding, but the oldest part in these machines are more software than anything else.
The biggest problem with this kind of machines isn't the hardware but to find people that are willing to work with them and learn the quirks in operating systems that has a legacy since the 60's. Not that all is bad, some is actually good, but they require a completely different way of thinking.
By the way - are there any anonymous FTP MVS (or heritage of MVS) servers around anymore. Just out of curiosity...
For those that wants to play around there is an emulator available called Turnkey.
is the time to require ample security measures that costs a lot. Locking-wires, alarms etc. When the cost exceeds the cost of having a room you may get a room again.
And actually - the stress level is higher if you work in an open area or in a cubicle than in a room. In a room you are always able to close your door.
And why shall we really care about the XBox 360 anyway?
It's yesterday now and we are waiting for the next big thing in gaming...
And maybe the next game console won't have any drive at all, instead it will download the games over the net on demand since everybody have broadband. - Eh right?
And why not save the game setup on a central server where you pay a yearly fee for the account?
And on some keyboards you have a "power" key and a "sleep" key too...
I think that it's safer today to say "Press Enter" to continue, or press "Space" to continue. But be aware that for old DEC users "Enter" means the key at the numeric pad while "Return" is the key by the letters.
You don't have to break THEIR system, just a system that is set up in a way that's indistinguishable from their system and demonstrate the various attacks possible.
Make a YouTube video of it without mentioning their name if you feel aggressive.
It's OK to make bold statements if you can do it with humor and not depend on the failure of that statement.
But when it comes to things like DRM and security it's just a disaster waiting to happen. What happens is that this will be a magnet and a challenge for all hackers regardless of intent just because they want to prove the statement wrong.
It's not necessarily to have a destructive mindset but a great deal of imagination and some paranoia.
Such a personality may be disastrous in many other cases but works well when it comes to security work.
And remember that most computer viruses in the beginning weren't really malicious - they just were there "because I can". Even those cases has to be taken into account by security people.
And don't forget that there are ways to create pages with hidden access to other sites just to generate traffic.
Just create a page with a bunch of hidden IFRAME tags and call out to the FBI sites. JavaScript is useful too as are Applets. If you create such a page on a site like Slashdot you will effectively render all slashdot readers criminals by this type of evidence.
Add it to an ad that's displayed on a well-visited site you will get even more.
And don't forget that the "Referer" tag can be faked. Maybe it should say www.fbi.gov...
Anyway - it's the money trail that has to be followed, not the data trail. The spam fight has already taught us that. Making illegal sources unprofitable will be the best incentive to cut out the crap and keep the good parts.
I commute in New Jersey, with probably the highest per-capita rate of incompetent asshole drivers. A friend of mine was in Tanzania a couple of years ago, and the top causes for mortality then were:
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There are a few problems to do good routing:
- The address allocations aren't reflecting the topology of the network, it has just been growing organically. Therefore the routing tables are horrible.
- Routing protocols were designed for robustness and not for the most effective path. Robustness and effectiveness intersect so we do have a relatively good network anyway. Some protocols are better than others too, and there are other that are proprietary that could have been used (like EIGRP) but aren't since not all manufacturers have implemented them.
- Effective routing needs processing power. To limit the utilization of a processor in a router the processing is often optimized by caching. This means that even if you have two parallel lines and haven't disabled the caching you will effectively only use one line. It is possible to disable the caching.
- Network topology is important to get right. To avoid circular routing of packets the general setup is to make star-shaped networks. This is really from the performance point of view an ineffective setup. It also means that even if you live in Boston and are going to transfer a file to your neighbor across the street the packets can be doing a turnaround in Philadelphia just to switch between ISP:s. And that's bad for the overall network performance.
I actually did surprise a guy once because he expected a file transfer to take about two hours and he didn't know that I had disabled the routing cache for those two parallel lines that we had to the other site and when the transfer ended in under an hour he suspected something was wrong, but the entire file was there. Then I told him... It made my day that day! The parallel lines were only 64k lines and the router weren't that loaded so it made sense to disable the cache in that case.It's the kind of person that will get a special room in the basement where they can continue to do their research and take on any student that dares to approach.
Go figure if you are recording a nature event like a bird - does the copyright on that movie go to you or to the bird?
Or if you make a movie of some people doing a demonstration. Is it you or the people that get the copyright on that work?
And don't forget that a lecture is fact filtered through the lecturer's view. And a recording will only catch that view from the view that the recording position will provide. This means that any different angle or position in the lecturing hall will provide a different view and therefore be a different work.
And unless it's explicitly forbidden to record a lecture it will therefore mean that you may record it. But some may argue that it should be the other way around - you may never be able or allowed to record anything without a written permission - which means that we are going into a dark future. Owning a pen or pencil will be licensed, knowing how to read is controlled by the government or the big corporations. Thought police everywhere.
The "Freedom to Read (watch)" should be derived of the "Freedom of Speech".
If notes were to be illegal then the students will learn less and therefore be of less use for the society in the future.
Too much emphasis is made on copyright and patents today so the only profession left where you can make money will be as a patent or copyright lawyer. And since those that are applying and help to make the law are often lawyers themselves this will be a perpetual wheel.
As for legal and business reason - that will be a sure way to be left behind and get excessive costs mounting without any gain.
One problem for open source in the future will be patent trolls. Maybe it's time to go troll hunting and see if they have collected a stash of gold that can be put to better use.
Even if Will Smith isn't that bad it may not be a good idea to incorporate him in such a movie - there will be too many associations with MIB.
But I still think that any new movie has to be measured against this. As I have understood it that movie was cut down quite a bit. I heard that there was 8 hours cut out of the original filming. But I suspect that some of it were bad scenes and duplicates and that the remaining parts have been destroyed by now so a "full version" or anything else may be lost to the void.
But another question is - Why redo that book again? Let us see some other of the well-known authors filmed. Asimov's "Nightfall", Gordon Dickson's "Way of the Pilgrim", Frederick Pohl's "Gateway", Heinlein's "Stranger in a Strange Land" (which gave us the word "Grok") or "Citizen of the Galaxy", Keith Laumer's "Galactic Odyssey", Jack Vance's "The Demon Princes", Alfred Bester's "The Stars My Destination", Jack McDevitt's "A Talent for War", Brian Aldiss epic "Helliconia", Christopher Anvil's "Pandora's Planet", Steven Gould's "Helm", Alfred Elton van Vogt's "The Empire of Isher".
There are also books that are better suited for TV series of course. Gordon Dickson's Dorsai books and the many Sector General stories from James White.
And there are books/authors that has produced enough material to allow creation of an epic series that sure could take on Star Wars (but sure be very different) like Iain M Banks Culture novels, the "Hope" series of David Feintuch, Asimov's foundation books, Orson Scott Card's "Ender's Game" and following books.
But maybe this just indicates that Hollywood needs to play it safe - but I think that they play it too safe in this case. One movie that's available on DVD still and the mini-series that was released a few years ago must surely have blunted the market for a third movie on the same story.
Once I created a CD with the AROS OS and booted a coworkers PC with it. Caused some confusion because that wasn't the ordinary Windows UI...
Another was when there was an emerging reorganization where I was working and they were running late and April 1:st came up and I took a few minutes with PowerPoint and went wild drawing a plausible but wild organization chart and then sent a group email to about 100 persons... At least nobody blamed me - even as I was the sender... One of the managers actually thought that it was a good one!
Changing someones mobile phone to Finnish is also a nice one... The boring thing is that the number of languages in most modern phones are so limited. You get a different set depending on which market the phone is sold on.
Not all ISO standards has become de facto standards, so the winner is still not decided.
Since the HD-DVD/BlueRay war is over we need a new. PC v.s. Mac is a long dead one, only a few die-hard Mac freaks are still using real Macs (not the x86 ones). See this as a battle in the Ms vs Open Source war.
Just too bad that the GUI:s like KDE and Gnome are so Windows-like. And I really think that CDE should have gone open source - just for the sake of it.
The whole patent business is just getting more and more sour...
Alternatives exists:
The drivers are provided as source, and usually compiles fine regardless of processor mode. Only a few drivers has been created bone-hard 32-bit.
Instead they use proxies like BSA, SCO and others to make the times miserable for everyone else.
The OOXML mess isn't helping them either.
And the copy protection scheme they have is just making things harder for the legitimate users. The pirates and others doesn't care about the protection technology and cracks it soon enough anyway.
I suspect that the upcoming versions of software from M$ is going to require TPM chips in our computers to work. But that will probably also make them even more alienated.
The biggest problem with this kind of machines isn't the hardware but to find people that are willing to work with them and learn the quirks in operating systems that has a legacy since the 60's. Not that all is bad, some is actually good, but they require a completely different way of thinking.
By the way - are there any anonymous FTP MVS (or heritage of MVS) servers around anymore. Just out of curiosity...
For those that wants to play around there is an emulator available called Turnkey.
And actually - the stress level is higher if you work in an open area or in a cubicle than in a room. In a room you are always able to close your door.
It's yesterday now and we are waiting for the next big thing in gaming...
And maybe the next game console won't have any drive at all, instead it will download the games over the net on demand since everybody have broadband. - Eh right?
And why not save the game setup on a central server where you pay a yearly fee for the account?
They actually had this crack already in December but they waited for the outcome of the war to make a better impact!
In this case they had Murphy's law on their side for a change.
The reference to "disaster" was for the ones making the claim, not for everyone else. In this case it's a disaster for the BD+ gang.
I think that it's safer today to say "Press Enter" to continue, or press "Space" to continue. But be aware that for old DEC users "Enter" means the key at the numeric pad while "Return" is the key by the letters.
Make a YouTube video of it without mentioning their name if you feel aggressive.
But when it comes to things like DRM and security it's just a disaster waiting to happen. What happens is that this will be a magnet and a challenge for all hackers regardless of intent just because they want to prove the statement wrong.
Such a personality may be disastrous in many other cases but works well when it comes to security work.
And remember that most computer viruses in the beginning weren't really malicious - they just were there "because I can". Even those cases has to be taken into account by security people.
Just create a page with a bunch of hidden IFRAME tags and call out to the FBI sites. JavaScript is useful too as are Applets. If you create such a page on a site like Slashdot you will effectively render all slashdot readers criminals by this type of evidence.
Add it to an ad that's displayed on a well-visited site you will get even more.
And don't forget that the "Referer" tag can be faked. Maybe it should say www.fbi.gov...
Anyway - it's the money trail that has to be followed, not the data trail. The spam fight has already taught us that. Making illegal sources unprofitable will be the best incentive to cut out the crap and keep the good parts.
- Malaria
- Traffic
- AIDS
So maybe you are complaining too much?