Intel already feels the pain, and has is one of the big supporters of a more sane and relaxed IP approach. They have submitted a number of briefs (including one supporting Eldred, IIRC) where they basically say "we are prolific IP holders, yet we often feel the pain of overbroad IP policy and on balance we support X's position to rationalize IP law."
It is very hypocritical for people here to cheer. We should support fair IP for everyone, large or small.
I certainly like Ruby, but I can't wait until parrot gets evolved enough so that Ruby and Python (and of course Perl) can all interoperate (and perform better to boot). Perl has absolutely huge collections of modules, but when you move to Python you give up some of them (Python has many equivalents, but not all). Moving to Ruby you give up even more. Why? We are triplicating our work. Everybody should compile to parrot.
Compare Jython, which allows Python to use Java classes (and JRuby does the same for Ruby, but isn't as far along). This is a pretty powerful combination, but it suffers from the problem that Java isn't free software (free work-a-likes are slowly emerging, but aren't feature complete).
I really think people should get excited about parrot. It has the potential to compete as a 100% open source solution with.net and java.
No DVD problems to report like the reviewer encountered.
OK, explain something to me. SuSE ships with SEVEN CD's and ONE DVD. The reviewer has a DVD drive, but encountered a bug loading the CD's in the DVD drive.
Why wasn't she using the freaking DVD in the DVD drive? (She couldn't tell them apart is not an acceptable answer).
In a nutshell Phoenix is like Galeon but with XUL support. Frankly, I think this is the browser I always wanted Mozilla to be.
Essentially Phoenix is trying to acheive the same goals as Galeon, so they are in some sense competitors , but using the same Gecko codebase (isn't open source great!).
No, what would have been weird is if you had just installed Phoenix 0.2 on your SuSE 8.1 Professional.
My copy of the later came in the mail today, so I could do just that, except I've already seen Slashdot today, so I guess I'm old news.
There should be a name for installing the latest thing, poping to Slashdot and finding that thing reviewed. (The Slashing Edge ?!) Triple points for first post, too.
I agree with this. XML file formats for the common office apps is an important thing. The Open Office formats are a great start, but these suffer from the tight branding with the Open Office implementation. Moving the format specs to an implementation neutral group would be a good thing, as it would facilitate merging with existing formats like AbiWord, etc...
I'd also like to see XML config formats for everything controlled by the OS. This would essentially serve the function of a registry, without the problems associated with it.
Yes, that was a brilliant move. He's obviously been building up a lot of support for it quietly.
If there was one guy in the House who symbolizes all that is wrong with IP, it is Coble. I really would like to see him ousted. There are major problems with IP in the US and Coble is the chief legislative obstacle in the House to solving them. The man obviously loves IP because it gives him a big vacuum to suck money from the IP interests with.
That is totally bunk. Bills are introduced late in the session with the express purpose of staking out ground for the next session. All of the copyright bills good and bad are basically trial balloons.
Boucher is a pretty sharp guy, and his bill has some big names supporting it (if you consider Intel, Verizon, Philips, Sun and Gateway big names). There is a major copyright fight brewing in Congress next term, and what you are seeing now is some early positioning. For example, Boucher's bill will be worked in the Commerce Committee and not the Judiciary Committe, which normally handles IP. That's because Coble, the chair, loves the DMCA.
By the way, according to Declan's ArticleBoucher's bill is co-sponsored by John Doolittle, R-Calif. It's nice to see bipartisan support.
You left out #4: posting the video of it all for the whole world to see.:-]
There was a recent case in Australia that REJECTED a similar claim by Sony under their DMCA equivalent (which is very equivalent).
The court ruled that mod chips do not circuvent anything that controls a right of the copyright holder. If this ruling stands (Sony is appealing), it marks the first limiting decision anywhere on what is sure to be an ongoing battle: the dividing line between access control and use control.
Nobody is allowed to post any more about emulators running emulators until they can provide a rigorous upper bound on the maximum depth of the emulator within an emulator recursion, as a function of system resources.
All of the articles I've seen are about spyware, not this new variant of "stealware", but since you didn't post any references to what you are talking about, and instead supply vulgarity and condescension, I'll just hope that somebody justs mods you down as you deserve.
You are the first named user person I've seen with 24 straight posts with a score of 1. Maybe you should take a hint.
I have a hard time believing that some bloke at the NYT would hear about a new form of rogue code before the story would break in the tech community.
Can anybody actually confirm first hand that this story is even true? The NYT story has no technical details, so as far as I know this is unverifiable. This is a good example of useless crap journalism, because even if it is true, the story doesn't really help you get rid of the software.
On the other end of the fight, Rep. Rick Boucher cited a threatening letter telling an ISP to remove a user because they were sharing the Harry Potter movie, but after an investigation it was discovered that it was actually a kid's book report.
Such false positives exactly why "counterattack" is not a viable method for combating *allegedly* illegal activity. Counterattack violates due process of law to the people who happen to be false positives.
The point is that Federal law cannot allow content based laws to restrict speech, and accordingly school policy based solely on compliance with Federal law cannot be violated here.
The student org in this case could seek a declaritory judgement saying that the link in question does not violate the Patriot Act. If they did so, the Court should grant it, because it clearly violates the First Amendment to restrict their political speech based on the fact that it's content includes a reference to a disfavored politcal group. If they are conspiring to commit terrorism, that is one thing. If they are saying "I like this group", even if it was Al Queda, that is their right.
The training you'll get will be so dumbed down and slow paced that it'll take you 8 times as long to learn the same thing in the real world.
The military persues tech training the same way that corporations do: they hire the same consulting firms to teach the exact same classes. For example, the USAF just hired Oracle to teach us one of the stock off-the-shelf courses on Oracle's Designer product. They have also purchased the entire collection of Oracle CBT's.
You obviously are trying to spread disinformation. Why would you be doing that?
The military wants you to think that you'll gain an exciting life, a rewarding career, valuable work experience, travel the world, be a patriot and geek out on the highest of tech. But in reality, you'll be stripped of your individualism, be used as muscle to expand corporate interests abroad, have a hand in killing other human beings and quite possibly be killed yourself.
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
-- John Stuart Mill
This is the method that the opposition will try: 1) Make some CPUs implement opt-in DRM 2) Make all CPUs implement opt-in DRM 3) Make some CPUs implement opt-out DRM 4) Make all CPUs implement opt-out DRM 5) Make some CPUs implement mandatory DRM 6) Make all CPUs implement mandatory DRM
We have to fight at every step. The key to fighting during the "some" steps will be economic and technical (early adopters must be punished) and the key to avoiding the all steps will be political.
I believe that our best opportunity is during step one. We need to be prepared to make END USERS who accept DRM suffer. This may be somewhat unnatural for us to do, but if we do that, the market will take care of the rest.
Here are a couple of ideas: A) Open source licences should actively exclude installation on DRM *capable* hardware. B) Open source tools must inhibit interoperability with DRM enabled hardware. "I'm sorry, but your machine does not meet the minimum requirements to view this web page" C) At work, try to influence procurement policy: - "DRM is for playing games and watching movies, do we really want our employees doing that?" - "Some software breaks when you use that - let's keep our options open" - "Palladium will worsen our lock-in to MS products, do we want that?" - "When somebody cracks it, and they will, we'll get viruses we can't remove"
I work at the Air Force Recruiting Center in the database shop. It is a pretty nice place to work. I was never in the military (I'm a contractor), but about half of the people I work with are, and a good chunk of the contractors are ex-military.
The Air Force offers a great opportunity in IT that few companies will offer, because they expect to fill entry level positions and they understand that they need to offer training. There are all varieties of systems at the Air Force, so there is no shortage of interesting technical problems to solve. One nice thing is that they do take computer security seriously, although that can also be a pain in the ass sometimes.
How well you deal with basic military training (BMT) depends on you. There is a certain level of physical fitness and humility that you need to have. They simply will not put up with your crap, so don't try to pull anything. BMT doesn't last all that long in the big picutre, so I wouldn't worry too much about that -- the big question is what comes after that, where will you work, and what will you do.
I was very surprised to learn what now seems obvious: the people in the military are just people. Some are very cool and a few are jerks. Contrary to Hollywood images, they don't shout orders at each other all day. I'm most impressed with the senior NCO's. There really are some outstanding people in the enlisted leadership positions. I work with a couple E-9's who I am very impressed with.
You should use a database (MySQL would be a good choice for this). Your data model could have issues, politicians, politican_issue_position, and issue_groups.
As for what issues, gosh there's a bunch: 1) Crazy software patents 2) Crazy business process patents 3) DMCA 4) DRM 5) Spam (mandatory "ADV:" for unsoliticted commercial email) 6) Government developed software using open source licencing 7) UCITA / non-enforcability of shrinkwraps 8) Reverse engineering of software 9) Privacy: opt-in vs opt-out 10) Governement use of open standards / file formats in software 11) Spyware 12) Government procurement policty encouraging/requiring open source 13) Legislation setting special penalties for violating open source licencing 14) Tolerating innovation in peer-to-peer tech 15) Privacy: strong encryption for citizens 16) Privacy: right to surf anonymously 17) Digital Television: fair use rights 18) Right to modify hardware you own
Some of your comments are flat wrong. Some are you being unreasonably lazy. I think you have three points that have some merit. Perhaps it's hard for you to shake the Microsoft mentality, but if you use bugzilla to report bugs or request features, people actually do read, consider, and respond. You should try that before you whine about it missing something useful.
To your first point: Tab reload: CTRL-R Close Tab: CTRL-W (did you even look?) A hot key for cycling through the tabs is a good idea. Ask for it and post your bugzilla number so people can vote for it.
2. I don't know what "auto-scroll" is, but how freaking hard is it to hit the spacebar?
3. For searching: choose google under prefs->Navigator->Internet Search. Type your search term in the URL location. Hit the search button.
For customizing toolbars, right click the toolbar with bookmarks, select "Open in New Window", customize to your hearts content. If you are saying that you want to do things like move you URL bar to the bottom, learn XUL.
4. Rendering!? You're examples are choice. You think that Mozilla should render INCORRECTLY so that you can read "bugreports" at microsoft.com. Hmmm.... . And cnn.com has a freaking netscape toolbar at the top and is owned by AOL/TW who make Netscape. They don't use IE's broken HTML.
I have ZERO tolerance for sites that don't follow the HTML standard. Don't visit them, don't do business with them, and don't even ask for mozilla to support them.
5. MIME types. Prefs->Navigator->Helper Applications. If you are too lazy to do this ONE TIME then maybe you should just mail Bill G. more money.
6. I don't use form or password managment, and if I did I would be very concerned with security and privacy, so I have nothing useful to say about your desired features. If you want it, ask for it.
7. Mouse gestures. Another feature I don't use, but it seems many people out there aren't flailing around as badly as you seem to be. Does IE even have this? Don't use it if you don't harmonize with it.
8. I tried a help search for "mailto" and found nothing. Since you've solved the problem, why don't you contact the help maintainer with a paragraph and ask him to add it to the docs. Or submit a bugzilla documentation bug.
10. Moz is a little more memory hungry than I'd like, but it's been consistently getting better. IE is deceptive, anyway. I've been using Moz heavily for about two hours. I'm at 33meg. IE reports about 16meg immediately after start-up, but we both know that large parts of it are "integrated" into the OS and not reporting themselves under the task manager. Your complaint was "speed", which is different. Use "Quick Launch" and Moz is pretty close to IE.
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Intel already feels the pain, and has is one of the big supporters of a more sane and relaxed IP approach. They have submitted a number of briefs (including one supporting Eldred, IIRC) where they basically say "we are prolific IP holders, yet we often feel the pain of overbroad IP policy and on balance we support X's position to rationalize IP law."
It is very hypocritical for people here to cheer. We should support fair IP for everyone, large or small.
Did the science category just jump the shark?
I certainly like Ruby, but I can't wait until parrot gets evolved enough so that Ruby and Python (and of course Perl) can all interoperate (and perform better to boot). Perl has absolutely huge collections of modules, but when you move to Python you give up some of them (Python has many equivalents, but not all). Moving to Ruby you give up even more. Why? We are triplicating our work. Everybody should compile to parrot.
.net and java.
Compare Jython, which allows Python to use Java classes (and JRuby does the same for Ruby, but isn't as far along). This is a pretty powerful combination, but it suffers from the problem that Java isn't free software (free work-a-likes are slowly emerging, but aren't feature complete).
I really think people should get excited about parrot. It has the potential to compete as a 100% open source solution with
No DVD problems to report like the reviewer encountered.
OK, explain something to me. SuSE ships with SEVEN CD's and ONE DVD. The reviewer has a DVD drive, but encountered a bug loading the CD's in the DVD drive.
Why wasn't she using the freaking DVD in the DVD drive? (She couldn't tell them apart is not an acceptable answer).
In a nutshell Phoenix is like Galeon but with XUL support. Frankly, I think this is the browser I always wanted Mozilla to be.
Essentially Phoenix is trying to acheive the same goals as Galeon, so they are in some sense competitors , but using the same Gecko codebase (isn't open source great!).
Two **really** obvious reasons:
1) It's cool
2) You can file bug reports and actually *help* the project along.
No, what would have been weird is if you had just installed Phoenix 0.2 on your SuSE 8.1 Professional.
My copy of the later came in the mail today, so I could do just that, except I've already seen Slashdot today, so I guess I'm old news.
There should be a name for installing the latest thing, poping to Slashdot and finding that thing reviewed. (The Slashing Edge ?!) Triple points for first post, too.
I agree with this. XML file formats for the common office apps is an important thing. The Open Office formats are a great start, but these suffer from the tight branding with the Open Office implementation. Moving the format specs to an implementation neutral group would be a good thing, as it would facilitate merging with existing formats like AbiWord, etc...
I'd also like to see XML config formats for everything controlled by the OS. This would essentially serve the function of a registry, without the problems associated with it.
Yes, that was a brilliant move. He's obviously been building up a lot of support for it quietly.
If there was one guy in the House who symbolizes all that is wrong with IP, it is Coble. I really would like to see him ousted. There are major problems with IP in the US and Coble is the chief legislative obstacle in the House to solving them. The man obviously loves IP because it gives him a big vacuum to suck money from the IP interests with.
That is totally bunk. Bills are introduced late in the session with the express purpose of staking out ground for the next session. All of the copyright bills good and bad are basically trial balloons.
Boucher is a pretty sharp guy, and his bill has some big names supporting it (if you consider Intel, Verizon, Philips, Sun and Gateway big names). There is a major copyright fight brewing in Congress next term, and what you are seeing now is some early positioning. For example, Boucher's bill will be worked in the Commerce Committee and not the Judiciary Committe, which normally handles IP. That's because Coble, the chair, loves the DMCA.
By the way, according to Declan's ArticleBoucher's bill is co-sponsored by John Doolittle, R-Calif. It's nice to see bipartisan support.
You left out #4: posting the video of it all for the whole world to see. :-]
There was a recent case in Australia that REJECTED a similar claim by Sony under their DMCA equivalent (which is very equivalent).
The court ruled that mod chips do not circuvent anything that controls a right of the copyright holder. If this ruling stands (Sony is appealing), it marks the first limiting decision anywhere on what is sure to be an ongoing battle: the dividing line between access control and use control.
Nobody is allowed to post any more about emulators running emulators until they can provide a rigorous upper bound on the maximum depth of the emulator within an emulator recursion, as a function of system resources.
All of the articles I've seen are about spyware, not this new variant of "stealware", but since you didn't post any references to what you are talking about, and instead supply vulgarity and condescension, I'll just hope that somebody justs mods you down as you deserve.
You are the first named user person I've seen with 24 straight posts with a score of 1. Maybe you should take a hint.
He truly is the lone voice of reason on technolgy matters.
I have a hard time believing that some bloke at the NYT would hear about a new form of rogue code before the story would break in the tech community.
Can anybody actually confirm first hand that this story is even true? The NYT story has no technical details, so as far as I know this is unverifiable. This is a good example of useless crap journalism, because even if it is true, the story doesn't really help you get rid of the software.
On the other end of the fight, Rep. Rick Boucher cited a threatening letter telling an ISP to remove a user because they were sharing the Harry Potter movie, but after an investigation it was discovered that it was actually a kid's book report.
Such false positives exactly why "counterattack" is not a viable method for combating *allegedly* illegal activity. Counterattack violates due process of law to the people who happen to be false positives.
The point is that Federal law cannot allow content based laws to restrict speech, and accordingly school policy based solely on compliance with Federal law cannot be violated here.
The student org in this case could seek a declaritory judgement saying that the link in question does not violate the Patriot Act. If they did so, the Court should grant it, because it clearly violates the First Amendment to restrict their political speech based on the fact that it's content includes a reference to a disfavored politcal group. If they are conspiring to commit terrorism, that is one thing. If they are saying "I like this group", even if it was Al Queda, that is their right.
If you like text editors, JEdit is great and it crosses over because it is java. Another java app is LimeWire, a gnutella client.
I'm surprised nobody meantioned Apache. A web server is a usefull thing to somebody with broadband.
A good game is freeciv, a Civilization knock off.
The military persues tech training the same way that corporations do: they hire the same consulting firms to teach the exact same classes. For example, the USAF just hired Oracle to teach us one of the stock off-the-shelf courses on Oracle's Designer product. They have also purchased the entire collection of Oracle CBT's.
You obviously are trying to spread disinformation. Why would you be doing that?
The military wants you to think that you'll gain an exciting life, a rewarding career, valuable work experience, travel the world, be a patriot and geek out on the highest of tech. But in reality, you'll be stripped of your individualism, be used as muscle to expand corporate interests abroad, have a hand in killing other human beings and quite possibly be killed yourself.
This is the method that the opposition will try:
1) Make some CPUs implement opt-in DRM
2) Make all CPUs implement opt-in DRM
3) Make some CPUs implement opt-out DRM
4) Make all CPUs implement opt-out DRM
5) Make some CPUs implement mandatory DRM
6) Make all CPUs implement mandatory DRM
We have to fight at every step. The key to fighting during the "some" steps will be economic and technical (early adopters must be punished) and the key to avoiding the all steps will be political.
I believe that our best opportunity is during step one. We need to be prepared to make END USERS who accept DRM suffer. This may be somewhat unnatural for us to do, but if we do that, the market will take care of the rest.
Here are a couple of ideas:
A) Open source licences should actively exclude installation on DRM *capable* hardware.
B) Open source tools must inhibit interoperability with DRM enabled hardware. "I'm sorry, but your machine does not meet the minimum requirements to view this web page"
C) At work, try to influence procurement policy:
- "DRM is for playing games and watching movies, do we really want our employees doing that?"
- "Some software breaks when you use that - let's keep our options open"
- "Palladium will worsen our lock-in to MS products, do we want that?"
- "When somebody cracks it, and they will, we'll get viruses we can't remove"
I work at the Air Force Recruiting Center in the database shop. It is a pretty nice place to work. I was never in the military (I'm a contractor), but about half of the people I work with are, and a good chunk of the contractors are ex-military.
The Air Force offers a great opportunity in IT that few companies will offer, because they expect to fill entry level positions and they understand that they need to offer training. There are all varieties of systems at the Air Force, so there is no shortage of interesting technical problems to solve. One nice thing is that they do take computer security seriously, although that can also be a pain in the ass sometimes.
How well you deal with basic military training (BMT) depends on you. There is a certain level of physical fitness and humility that you need to have. They simply will not put up with your crap, so don't try to pull anything. BMT doesn't last all that long in the big picutre, so I wouldn't worry too much about that -- the big question is what comes after that, where will you work, and what will you do.
I was very surprised to learn what now seems obvious: the people in the military are just people. Some are very cool and a few are jerks. Contrary to Hollywood images, they don't shout orders at each other all day. I'm most impressed with the senior NCO's. There really are some outstanding people in the enlisted leadership positions. I work with a couple E-9's who I am very impressed with.
If that soldier is Saddam Hussein, then yes.
You should use a database (MySQL would be a good choice for this). Your data model could have issues, politicians, politican_issue_position, and issue_groups.
As for what issues, gosh there's a bunch:
1) Crazy software patents
2) Crazy business process patents
3) DMCA
4) DRM
5) Spam (mandatory "ADV:" for unsoliticted commercial email)
6) Government developed software using open source licencing
7) UCITA / non-enforcability of shrinkwraps
8) Reverse engineering of software
9) Privacy: opt-in vs opt-out
10) Governement use of open standards / file formats in software
11) Spyware
12) Government procurement policty encouraging/requiring open source
13) Legislation setting special penalties for violating open source licencing
14) Tolerating innovation in peer-to-peer tech
15) Privacy: strong encryption for citizens
16) Privacy: right to surf anonymously
17) Digital Television: fair use rights
18) Right to modify hardware you own
Some of your comments are flat wrong. Some are you being unreasonably lazy. I think you have three points that have some merit. Perhaps it's hard for you to shake the Microsoft mentality, but if you use bugzilla to report bugs or request features, people actually do read, consider, and respond. You should try that before you whine about it missing something useful.
To your first point:
Tab reload: CTRL-R
Close Tab: CTRL-W (did you even look?)
A hot key for cycling through the tabs is a good idea. Ask for it and post your bugzilla number so people can vote for it.
2. I don't know what "auto-scroll" is, but how freaking hard is it to hit the spacebar?
3. For searching: choose google under prefs->Navigator->Internet Search. Type your search term in the URL location. Hit the search button.
For customizing toolbars, right click the toolbar with bookmarks, select "Open in New Window", customize to your hearts content. If you are saying that you want to do things like move you URL bar to the bottom, learn XUL.
4. Rendering!? You're examples are choice. You think that Mozilla should render INCORRECTLY so that you can read "bugreports" at microsoft.com. Hmmm.... . And cnn.com has a freaking netscape toolbar at the top and is owned by AOL/TW who make Netscape. They don't use IE's broken HTML.
I have ZERO tolerance for sites that don't follow the HTML standard. Don't visit them, don't do business with them, and don't even ask for mozilla to support them.
5. MIME types. Prefs->Navigator->Helper Applications. If you are too lazy to do this ONE TIME then maybe you should just mail Bill G. more money.
6. I don't use form or password managment, and if I did I would be very concerned with security and privacy, so I have nothing useful to say about your desired features. If you want it, ask for it.
7. Mouse gestures. Another feature I don't use, but it seems many people out there aren't flailing around as badly as you seem to be. Does IE even have this? Don't use it if you don't harmonize with it.
8. I tried a help search for "mailto" and found nothing. Since you've solved the problem, why don't you contact the help maintainer with a paragraph and ask him to add it to the docs. Or submit a bugzilla documentation bug.
10. Moz is a little more memory hungry than I'd like, but it's been consistently getting better. IE is deceptive, anyway. I've been using Moz heavily for about two hours. I'm at 33meg. IE reports about 16meg immediately after start-up, but we both know that large parts of it are "integrated" into the OS and not reporting themselves under the task manager. Your complaint was "speed", which is different. Use "Quick Launch" and Moz is pretty close to IE.
Forget transactions -- you can fake that with LOCKs.
That is so inspiring. I can see you pitching that to a CIO.