There are several different options left as a punishment, even if you can't prove every detail you can set them free - in northern Alaska (time of year at leisure). If they survive nature they have shown that they may actually have skills enough to get by but if not - well it's their problem.
What makes crime worse - it may depend on the circumstances. The drop of water that hollows the stone may be as mean as the shotgun that blows it apart. If they make money from the spam (the usually do) there has to be intent behind the crime. The way they spread the junk is also important - it can be a range from illicit use of computer resources to intrusion and destruction of property.
Anyway - an explicit death penalty may be too harsh, but a considerable penalty isn't bad.
It looks too me like they can sire the whole Geek Squad and start over with a collection of persons with no ability to have any kind of emotions at all.
Employment requirements: Higly analytic skills, no emotions, very logical - Oh what was your name again? Spock?
Is not HTML in itself but that too few softwares around actually are able to produce well-formed HTML. It's not easy to get it right but there is help available in the form of the HTML validator.
Another catch is that the evolving of HTML into XHTML may be with good intentions but the end result is that it's no longer an easy world to work in. That means that HTML still should evolve in it's own right. However there are a few features that I really would like to see in future HTML versions:
Consistent tag handling where all tags shall have start and stop tagging as XHTML has. It will make things more consistent.
HTML may keep it's case insensitive tags - that's no big issue.
Look into a few new input tag types, the ones that exists aren't bad but sometimes there would be benefit from a <select> tag that also allows the user to manually input a value, which is impossible today unless you insert a special component to handle that feature.
A certification test program for web browsers wouldn't really hurt. There is the Acid2 test and a few others, but a more comprehensive test wouldn't hurt.
Aside from the fact that HTML may need a few new features it's actually relatively good, healthy and kicking.
Another web feature that needs an overhaul is the scripting. JavaScript is in some ways good, but it's also very bad since it isn't type-safe. It is however a lot better than VBscript which is something that we got for our sins and binds the functionality to the Microsoft world only. So what we have are two solutions; One half-baked, namely JavaScript and one completely sticky and messy, VBScript.
And not only that - there is a problem that the amount of music that's available to the consumers is so large that it's impossible for ordinary shops to stock correctly. The overhead of unsold CD:s will eat up the profit that the few large selling items give.
More and more music is produced while the old music still is available. The pricing of the CD:s is also a problem. It's so easy to buy 10 CD:s when they cost $5 each, but when they cost $20 each you buy one or maybe two. The internet download of music would have happened regardless of Napster, Gnutella etc. Just an accident waiting to happen.
And - depending on where you are living there are sometimes radio stations that actually provide good music, large variation or different music from time to time too. SR is one example. (Site in Swedish. OK maybe/.:ed now:-)). There are also a lot of internet radios that can provide music for about every taste. Unfortunately the music industry is unable to understand that the music played on radio (internet or wireless) is actually more promotional than a sales loss. If you want quality sound you don't record from the radio unless you actually can't afford buying the music anyway.
One of the advantages with the internet is that it allows the artists to get a much shorter channel to the customers compared to the now old and tired way of going by CD:s. The normal situation today is that when you find a CD shop you go in and look around and find a lot of the music you don't want or already have, but not much of the music you want. And if you ask you will be told that they can order it if you REALLY want it. So the next thing is to go home and download the tracks from some site where they are already available.
This is only the tip of an iceberg, you will find a lot of GPL source or extracts of GPL source almost everywhere. Maybe not complete libraries, but some snippets may be found now and then.
The problem lies in the possibility to identify all those parts.
The lack of global wars isn't necessarily a bad thing - because if we really had a global war today the devastation would be so extreme that there wouldn't be any need for anything more than the very basic technology like chisel and hammer.
What we do have are wars of a different kind - less bloody but still driving the progress. Linux vs Windows, Mac vs PC etc. The only problem is that right now all those healthy competitions are brought under a very moist blanket by the IP property laws and the software patents.
The time for a revolution in IP property laws is now - and not necessarily to make them stricter but to provide the credits to the real creators and not some overlord or troll trying to milk money from other people's creations.
Openness and inventions are what's driving the wheel of progress forward while IP lawsuits are the potholes and the rocks on the road. It's not that patents themselves are evil, but they are today driven by the lawyers and not by the inventors. Being a lawyer is probably one of the safest ways to earn money - if you have spare time you can always find some violation to prosecute.
Standardization is another important factor - the US is still sticking around with a whole set of obsolete and obnoxious measurements while almost every other country in the world is supporting the metric system. Time to pull out the head of the sand here...
Religious fanatics are always a problem. "Oh no - you can't use condoms to stop the spread of Aids - that will go against the will of God". Yes you can abstain from sex, but it's not that easy - and not everyone wants either.
Even if that is a pseudonym for a real person or not it really doesn't matter because the result is what counts. An important part is that what Groklaw did in this case was to bring out some of the nastier parts in the clear. There was no need for Groklaw to mess things up or go around spreading FUD - SCO did that well enough already so it was just a question of pricking their FUD balloons with a sharp needle now and then.
Currently one battle is won, but the war against those who want to cripple Linux and other open source software is far from over. SCO isn't really on the map anymore, but there are others that can go in sneakier and use other methods to try to spread FUD and increase the value of the competition (read Microsoft).
As the end comment: "*shrug* The DI fellows would be EXPELLED from my university for this." - personally I would replace the word "university" with "universe" as I did read it first when I was reading it sloppy...
Anyway - this is a clear case of not acceptable use of another persons work. What really worries me is that one of the president candidates, namely Mike Huckabee is outspoken anti-science, anti-abortion, and anti-homosexual. One of his complaints is that scientists changes their theories all the time but God does not. Not too far-fetched from this infringement, and what will we see if he gets elected?
Using the word of the bible as an argument in the debate is not really smart - it still relies on the interpretation. Science is also interpretations and evolving theories. The problem with creationists is that they doesn't seem to realize that even the interpretation of the bible has to evolve - sometimes the text is even incorrect because the text in the bible has been unintentionally incorrectly translated. This makes them no better than other fundamentalists in other camps.
If we all were created - then we all should be walking around having the same thoughts and opinions as well, in which case there would be only one religion.
And don't complain that science changes the theories sometimes. The mechanics of Sir Isaac Newton works fine for everyday use, but when things get a little tougher the adaptations added by Albert Einstein will start to be important. At the other end of the spectrum it's the theories added by Werner Karl Heisenberg and Erwin Schrödinger that starts to be important. (don't forget to let out the cat...). Much of today's everyday features can be explained or are a result of the works from these persons. (many more persons have also contributed)
These theories gets more and more refined or even confirmed. Hardly anybody may oppose the formulas that Newton did set up, most accept that Einstein made things a lot better. The cosmological constant first introduced by him to compensate for a steady universe is still a possibility - even if it may not stabilize the universe, it's more a question of the size of the parameter, which may end up being not a constant at all.
The problem is that it's not the creator of the works that benefit from the copyright as it is defined today but the deadweight like RIAA and MPAA members that take the bulk of the cash. I don't have a problem paying if I'm certain that the cash ends up in the pockets of the creators, but as soon as the creator is deceased and all ties wrapped there is no benefit for the afterworld to have any copyright on the work created.
Of course - there is a gray zone where the creator may have died with debts, leaving a spouse behind etc. but in general the value of copyright after death of the creator(s) is rather low.
One important option is that the copyright should never be transferable - the creator shall always be in control. There may be multiple creators involved in a work, but that's still possible to handle.
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That's the normal situation - governments are permitted to do anything that's criminal for a normal citizen. As soon as you do anything is government approved or required it's no longer an issue of breaking the law. Even if it's morally wrong.
The problem here is that the guy revealed one of the weaknesses that's utilized by governments all over the world and suddenly that leak was quenched.
So we all can do a little hack to drench the URL in falsified information making the data completely invalidated.
If you can't get them by doing A you can do it by doing B instead.
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Of course all mobile devices are identifiable, the IMEI is part of the GSM standard and identifies the handset, just dial *#06# on your phone. The IMSI is the ID stored on the SIM card.
Somebody just upgraded the Pentium II server from running SCO Unix to Windows Vista.
Yes - I'll be modded Troll or Flamebait for this!
Anyway - the problem can range all the way from a server with a hiccup to a DOS attack. Or maybe you just hit them when they were running a backup of their server...
C# is known to the world as C-Hash. It seems to be the result of an ADA programmer smoking pot.
Garbage collectors may be fine, but for some solutions they can be a problem.
And of course - it's possible to get memory leaks just about everywhere regardless of programming language. It just depends on how "smart" the programmer is.
The real question is: All those Vonage-locked boxes - can they be unlocked and re-used to some other service or your local Asterisk? Will Linksys/Cisco provide a tool for that, or can it be done by some other means? Maybe all Vonage customers shall write to them to tell them that "In order to protect my assets I request that you provide me with means to unlock my device".
Anyway - even if Vonage wouldn't be my choice (I'm using Cellip) the whole case looks really bad when it comes to customer advantage. It looks to me that Verizon is cutting the competition in a way that's at least morally blind.
It is so bizarre and still indicates the rigidness of the public service to go so over the edge that it can only be fully described as a work of surrealistic art.
Or is it simply that they are saying that they are going to drop the bid just to create a large fuzz and confusion and then drop a bid on another frequency?
what are they REALLY going to do with that band? It's a frequency band that can ONLY be used in the US, so it has to be some kind of national service, not a world-wide service.
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In 30 degrees it's no problem being too cold anyway. Comfort zone is 21 to 23 degrees... Celsius...
The possibility of hiding a skewed algorithm in an electronic voting machine is much easier than to get a really skewed result from hand-counting. This implies that there are several persons doing the hand counting, and that they are evenly distributed through the parties. A skewed algorithm in an electronic counting can easily drift to one side, while the hand-counting will have an error that is around the center. It's only if the outcome falls down to very few votes that it may matter.
The money has to come from somewhere... Right now it's Google, and since Google are competing with Microsoft they need to make a statement of not being dependent on IE. If Google had been into IE much more they would have been having less goodwill and being more in the leashes of Microsoft.
In this case it's the end-users that are the winners because there is more than one browser available. (Not that I'm disregarding Opera or Safari, they have an important part to play too.)
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What makes crime worse - it may depend on the circumstances. The drop of water that hollows the stone may be as mean as the shotgun that blows it apart. If they make money from the spam (the usually do) there has to be intent behind the crime. The way they spread the junk is also important - it can be a range from illicit use of computer resources to intrusion and destruction of property.
Anyway - an explicit death penalty may be too harsh, but a considerable penalty isn't bad.
Until market domination and patent monopoly when it will be heavily overpriced.
Employment requirements: Higly analytic skills, no emotions, very logical - Oh what was your name again? Spock?
Another catch is that the evolving of HTML into XHTML may be with good intentions but the end result is that it's no longer an easy world to work in. That means that HTML still should evolve in it's own right. However there are a few features that I really would like to see in future HTML versions:
- Consistent tag handling where all tags shall have start and stop tagging as XHTML has. It will make things more consistent.
- HTML may keep it's case insensitive tags - that's no big issue.
- Look into a few new input tag types, the ones that exists aren't bad but sometimes there would be benefit from a <select> tag that also allows the user to manually input a value, which is impossible today unless you insert a special component to handle that feature.
- A certification test program for web browsers wouldn't really hurt. There is the Acid2 test and a few others, but a more comprehensive test wouldn't hurt.
Aside from the fact that HTML may need a few new features it's actually relatively good, healthy and kicking.Another web feature that needs an overhaul is the scripting. JavaScript is in some ways good, but it's also very bad since it isn't type-safe. It is however a lot better than VBscript which is something that we got for our sins and binds the functionality to the Microsoft world only. So what we have are two solutions; One half-baked, namely JavaScript and one completely sticky and messy, VBScript.
So much for rants and flames...
More and more music is produced while the old music still is available. The pricing of the CD:s is also a problem. It's so easy to buy 10 CD:s when they cost $5 each, but when they cost $20 each you buy one or maybe two. The internet download of music would have happened regardless of Napster, Gnutella etc. Just an accident waiting to happen.
And - depending on where you are living there are sometimes radio stations that actually provide good music, large variation or different music from time to time too. SR is one example. (Site in Swedish. OK maybe /.:ed now :-)). There are also a lot of internet radios that can provide music for about every taste. Unfortunately the music industry is unable to understand that the music played on radio (internet or wireless) is actually more promotional than a sales loss. If you want quality sound you don't record from the radio unless you actually can't afford buying the music anyway.
One of the advantages with the internet is that it allows the artists to get a much shorter channel to the customers compared to the now old and tired way of going by CD:s. The normal situation today is that when you find a CD shop you go in and look around and find a lot of the music you don't want or already have, but not much of the music you want. And if you ask you will be told that they can order it if you REALLY want it. So the next thing is to go home and download the tracks from some site where they are already available.
Naked, blasted and pissed off...
The problem lies in the possibility to identify all those parts.
What we do have are wars of a different kind - less bloody but still driving the progress. Linux vs Windows, Mac vs PC etc. The only problem is that right now all those healthy competitions are brought under a very moist blanket by the IP property laws and the software patents.
The time for a revolution in IP property laws is now - and not necessarily to make them stricter but to provide the credits to the real creators and not some overlord or troll trying to milk money from other people's creations.
Openness and inventions are what's driving the wheel of progress forward while IP lawsuits are the potholes and the rocks on the road. It's not that patents themselves are evil, but they are today driven by the lawyers and not by the inventors. Being a lawyer is probably one of the safest ways to earn money - if you have spare time you can always find some violation to prosecute.
Standardization is another important factor - the US is still sticking around with a whole set of obsolete and obnoxious measurements while almost every other country in the world is supporting the metric system. Time to pull out the head of the sand here...
Religious fanatics are always a problem. "Oh no - you can't use condoms to stop the spread of Aids - that will go against the will of God". Yes you can abstain from sex, but it's not that easy - and not everyone wants either.
Even if that is a pseudonym for a real person or not it really doesn't matter because the result is what counts. An important part is that what Groklaw did in this case was to bring out some of the nastier parts in the clear. There was no need for Groklaw to mess things up or go around spreading FUD - SCO did that well enough already so it was just a question of pricking their FUD balloons with a sharp needle now and then.
Just watch your back!
and it's actually illegal in some countries.
Anyway - this is a clear case of not acceptable use of another persons work. What really worries me is that one of the president candidates, namely Mike Huckabee is outspoken anti-science, anti-abortion, and anti-homosexual. One of his complaints is that scientists changes their theories all the time but God does not. Not too far-fetched from this infringement, and what will we see if he gets elected?
Using the word of the bible as an argument in the debate is not really smart - it still relies on the interpretation. Science is also interpretations and evolving theories. The problem with creationists is that they doesn't seem to realize that even the interpretation of the bible has to evolve - sometimes the text is even incorrect because the text in the bible has been unintentionally incorrectly translated. This makes them no better than other fundamentalists in other camps.
If we all were created - then we all should be walking around having the same thoughts and opinions as well, in which case there would be only one religion.
And don't complain that science changes the theories sometimes. The mechanics of Sir Isaac Newton works fine for everyday use, but when things get a little tougher the adaptations added by Albert Einstein will start to be important. At the other end of the spectrum it's the theories added by Werner Karl Heisenberg and Erwin Schrödinger that starts to be important. (don't forget to let out the cat...). Much of today's everyday features can be explained or are a result of the works from these persons. (many more persons have also contributed)
These theories gets more and more refined or even confirmed. Hardly anybody may oppose the formulas that Newton did set up, most accept that Einstein made things a lot better. The cosmological constant first introduced by him to compensate for a steady universe is still a possibility - even if it may not stabilize the universe, it's more a question of the size of the parameter, which may end up being not a constant at all.
God is not dead but alive and well and working on a much less ambitious project.
Of course - there is a gray zone where the creator may have died with debts, leaving a spouse behind etc. but in general the value of copyright after death of the creator(s) is rather low.
One important option is that the copyright should never be transferable - the creator shall always be in control. There may be multiple creators involved in a work, but that's still possible to handle.
The problem here is that the guy revealed one of the weaknesses that's utilized by governments all over the world and suddenly that leak was quenched.
So we all can do a little hack to drench the URL in falsified information making the data completely invalidated.
If you can't get them by doing A you can do it by doing B instead.
</evil>
Of course all mobile devices are identifiable, the IMEI is part of the GSM standard and identifies the handset, just dial *#06# on your phone. The IMSI is the ID stored on the SIM card.
Yes - I'll be modded Troll or Flamebait for this!
Anyway - the problem can range all the way from a server with a hiccup to a DOS attack. Or maybe you just hit them when they were running a backup of their server...
Garbage collectors may be fine, but for some solutions they can be a problem.
And of course - it's possible to get memory leaks just about everywhere regardless of programming language. It just depends on how "smart" the programmer is.
If you eat too much carrot you may actually damage your liver, so it's not a good idea.
Anyway - even if Vonage wouldn't be my choice (I'm using Cellip) the whole case looks really bad when it comes to customer advantage. It looks to me that Verizon is cutting the competition in a way that's at least morally blind.
It is so bizarre and still indicates the rigidness of the public service to go so over the edge that it can only be fully described as a work of surrealistic art.
Sometimes I would like to see the Klingon legal rules about the lawyers...
Or is it simply that they are saying that they are going to drop the bid just to create a large fuzz and confusion and then drop a bid on another frequency?
what are they REALLY going to do with that band? It's a frequency band that can ONLY be used in the US, so it has to be some kind of national service, not a world-wide service.
In 30 degrees it's no problem being too cold anyway. Comfort zone is 21 to 23 degrees... Celsius...
The possibility of hiding a skewed algorithm in an electronic voting machine is much easier than to get a really skewed result from hand-counting. This implies that there are several persons doing the hand counting, and that they are evenly distributed through the parties. A skewed algorithm in an electronic counting can easily drift to one side, while the hand-counting will have an error that is around the center. It's only if the outcome falls down to very few votes that it may matter.
In this case it's the end-users that are the winners because there is more than one browser available. (Not that I'm disregarding Opera or Safari, they have an important part to play too.)