It's looking that way. Scratch the AI, and scratch the braincore idea (I would imagine that the data storage would be external initially)... but it's starting to look possible.
That's not what the statement is about. When the GP states,
Each user should be able to access only their portion of the file.
he is implying that everything is kept in the central registry, when clearly this should not be. Such things also require semantics that are only in Reiser4.
The user registry should be in the user's home directory.
And do you know how disorganized a single file can get? Much more than a single directory, that's for sure. I like having a separate config file for things because file system operations are so much easier to handle than text editing alone.
Some of you might find/etc messy, but I think it's a flowerbed compared to the jungle that is the Windows registry.
So the great tradgedy of the human species is that being an asshole is our mating ritual. Fucking wonderful.
No wonder many of the imaginary races and species we have created seem like better mates/dates to me than most human women. They are often creatures of the mind and imagination and actually make sense, which is unfortunately unrealistic.
Well, I do remember the cutscene from the end of the first episode of Duke Nukem 3D, after Duke kills the boss, he punches a hole in the monster and (probably---we don't see the nasty bits, thank God) defecates in it.
I would like to chastize MozillaZine for choosing such a sensationalist headline. "Mozilla Cancels xxxxxx!!1!" when this really isn't a big deal. At all.
I used to have some tinfoil hat conspiracy theory in place of this, but now that I see that the MozillaZine article uses the word "Cancelled," I can see that it's just an isolated case of sensationalism.
Yeah, this is just a strong case of turbulence. Momentum needs to be regained.
But if you don't force certain paradigms onto even the simplest of users, they suffer.
Until the home user's version of a Microsoft OS allows you to properly separate admin-space from normal userspace, those users will suffer. And even then, the nightmare will start again when the privilege escalation bugs in Windows start getting excercised.
My sister's computer has Pro on it. I haven't been able to explore it much (she's very posessive about it), but even in the small amount of time I have used it, I found that you still need to create a special admin account before you can create a limited user account. And until Windows has an easy way to sudo (not just su, which they have for executables but not intrinsics like the Control Panel), they won't have a useful privilege system for the home user. And even the simplest-minded of users that run their own machine, as of this massive security fiasco that afflicts Microsoft now, need to understand how to setup and administrate a multi-user system, since the single-user system cannot be attached to the network. If the home user cannot understand this, then the idea of the PC still needs work that Microsoft might be unwilling to bring to it.
So no, they do not need Pro. But in some ways, they need even more than what Pro provides.
Maybe we should start formalizing a contingency plan. Locking FOSS---and many other groups---out of the Internet would be disasterous for us, and we have everything to lose if we fail to head this off.
I'm thinking that a survival kit containing a modem (a real modem) and a list of phone numbers to dial into and some hierarchy organizing connections between the node systems would be the bare minimum to allow work and communication to continue at a functional level.
BTW, I'm not kidding (well, not completely). If this could be as bad as we think, we should plan for the worst case, tinfoil-hat scenario.
OK, so TCPA and Palladium/NGSCB may not exactly be the same system, and may or may not be compatable.
Who will sell what? Are we going to have to bitch at motherboard makers, chipset makers, and/or OEMs to provide versions of both? And how easy will TCPA be to work with? I better damn well not be forced to phone home to anybody to make my damn hardware work.
I don't think I've seen that much intelligent discussion about video games in one place ever before.
The articles are all well-written (saw a typo here and there, though), with insightful content relating personal experiences, gaming epiphanies, reviews of interesting games with novel ideas. It is a thoroughly enjoyable read, and I would without a doubt subscribe to this magazine were it distributed as such.
The problem is that people rely on benchmarks as a metric of the typical performance of a certain piece of hardware. If you tune for a benchmark, that defeats the whole purpose of the benchmark. Besides that, it's generally a greasy thing to do. Remember when either nVidia or ATI got caught reporting inflated FPS when a certain benchmark executable was run? That's what I have in mind.
Squeezing out the last drops of performance is one thing. Inflating numbers artificially and optimizing for such benchmarks, which is actually what I had in mind, is another story entirely.
Also, think about the GeForce 6xxx owners who are still waiting to be able to fully use the WMV codec acceleration on-board. And everybody bitches all the time about how X regresses all their games or Y BSODs their computer.
For example, Half-Life 2 is a very popular game. If nVidia starts messing with their drivers to run HL2 better, but ATI does not, then guess who HL2 fans are going to buy from?
And this is, of course, just another one of the many wonderful reasons why graphics drivers should but never will be opened up.
And give us the goddamn specs, you bastards! Part of the reason ISAs (it'd still be an ISA, even though a GPU is not really a CPU, right?) exist is so that one does not need to know the microarchitecture to use the damn hardware!
That's still a fallacious argument. Firefox is no different from all other browsers in this regard. The only browser which deserves special mention is IE, since it is part of the mechanism of the attack.
By visiting a malicious site with Firefox, a user can infect their install of Internet Explorer.... VitalSecurity's report points out that this vulnerability can (only) affect Windows users who use Sun's Java Runtime Environment.
So, the attack happens through Sun's JVM, affects IE, and consequently has nothing to do with Firefox, which was inserted into the article for maximum troll capability.
I'd also like to follow-up on a point about the duration of copyright. I understand now why having copyright last for at least the duration of the author's life is important: people who produce art (or content, or however you want to look at it) may have dependants to support. One thing we who seek the freedom of culture often overlook is that many artists often expect to make a living and/or professional careers out of what they do.
Without the support of the artist-type of person, we will never achieve much of what we want. So, we are either going to have to change their attitudes about making a living off of art, or we are going to have to make some compromises.
In the evaluation of traditional Western art, the creator has always been valued over the performer.
(Hint: they're both artists.)
One thing that all of this technology does is to definitely tip the scales somewhat back toward the performer---or rather, it enhances the importance of the performance aspect. Writing a song is higher art, I think, than performing a song (and being a "recording artist" is way down in the pits), but being able to do both yourself is even better.
Slashdot Mirror
It's called "public domain." (But you probably already knew that.)
Oh, but that's right, it won't release to the public domain for approximately another 150 years. Fuck WIPO!
It's looking that way. Scratch the AI, and scratch the braincore idea (I would imagine that the data storage would be external initially)... but it's starting to look possible.
I think he ran out of tin foil and is beginning to panic.
That's not what the statement is about. When the GP states,
Each user should be able to access only their portion of the file.
he is implying that everything is kept in the central registry, when clearly this should not be. Such things also require semantics that are only in Reiser4.
The user registry should be in the user's home directory.
/etc messy, but I think it's a flowerbed compared to the jungle that is the Windows registry.
And do you know how disorganized a single file can get? Much more than a single directory, that's for sure. I like having a separate config file for things because file system operations are so much easier to handle than text editing alone.
Some of you might find
So the great tradgedy of the human species is that being an asshole is our mating ritual. Fucking wonderful.
No wonder many of the imaginary races and species we have created seem like better mates/dates to me than most human women. They are often creatures of the mind and imagination and actually make sense, which is unfortunately unrealistic.
Well, I do remember the cutscene from the end of the first episode of Duke Nukem 3D, after Duke kills the boss, he punches a hole in the monster and (probably---we don't see the nasty bits, thank God) defecates in it.
Obviously I'm joking about the headline, with all the exclamation points. The important point is that "Cancels" is not appropriate for this situation.
I would like to chastize MozillaZine for choosing such a sensationalist headline. "Mozilla Cancels xxxxxx!!1!" when this really isn't a big deal. At all.
I used to have some tinfoil hat conspiracy theory in place of this, but now that I see that the MozillaZine article uses the word "Cancelled," I can see that it's just an isolated case of sensationalism.
Yeah, this is just a strong case of turbulence. Momentum needs to be regained.
Well, they don't really.
But if you don't force certain paradigms onto even the simplest of users, they suffer.
Until the home user's version of a Microsoft OS allows you to properly separate admin-space from normal userspace, those users will suffer. And even then, the nightmare will start again when the privilege escalation bugs in Windows start getting excercised.
My sister's computer has Pro on it. I haven't been able to explore it much (she's very posessive about it), but even in the small amount of time I have used it, I found that you still need to create a special admin account before you can create a limited user account. And until Windows has an easy way to sudo (not just su, which they have for executables but not intrinsics like the Control Panel), they won't have a useful privilege system for the home user. And even the simplest-minded of users that run their own machine, as of this massive security fiasco that afflicts Microsoft now, need to understand how to setup and administrate a multi-user system, since the single-user system cannot be attached to the network. If the home user cannot understand this, then the idea of the PC still needs work that Microsoft might be unwilling to bring to it.
So no, they do not need Pro. But in some ways, they need even more than what Pro provides.
Maybe we should start formalizing a contingency plan. Locking FOSS---and many other groups---out of the Internet would be disasterous for us, and we have everything to lose if we fail to head this off.
I'm thinking that a survival kit containing a modem (a real modem) and a list of phone numbers to dial into and some hierarchy organizing connections between the node systems would be the bare minimum to allow work and communication to continue at a functional level.
BTW, I'm not kidding (well, not completely). If this could be as bad as we think, we should plan for the worst case, tinfoil-hat scenario.
OK, so TCPA and Palladium/NGSCB may not exactly be the same system, and may or may not be compatable.
Who will sell what? Are we going to have to bitch at motherboard makers, chipset makers, and/or OEMs to provide versions of both? And how easy will TCPA be to work with? I better damn well not be forced to phone home to anybody to make my damn hardware work.
I don't think I've seen that much intelligent discussion about video games in one place ever before.
The articles are all well-written (saw a typo here and there, though), with insightful content relating personal experiences, gaming epiphanies, reviews of interesting games with novel ideas. It is a thoroughly enjoyable read, and I would without a doubt subscribe to this magazine were it distributed as such.
http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Test/?
If you absolutely need Slashdot to render perfectly, start using the trunk versions. Otherwise STFU.
The problem is that people rely on benchmarks as a metric of the typical performance of a certain piece of hardware. If you tune for a benchmark, that defeats the whole purpose of the benchmark. Besides that, it's generally a greasy thing to do. Remember when either nVidia or ATI got caught reporting inflated FPS when a certain benchmark executable was run? That's what I have in mind.
Squeezing out the last drops of performance is one thing. Inflating numbers artificially and optimizing for such benchmarks, which is actually what I had in mind, is another story entirely.
Also, think about the GeForce 6xxx owners who are still waiting to be able to fully use the WMV codec acceleration on-board. And everybody bitches all the time about how X regresses all their games or Y BSODs their computer.
For example, Half-Life 2 is a very popular game. If nVidia starts messing with their drivers to run HL2 better, but ATI does not, then guess who HL2 fans are going to buy from?
And this is, of course, just another one of the many wonderful reasons why graphics drivers should but never will be opened up.
And give us the goddamn specs, you bastards! Part of the reason ISAs (it'd still be an ISA, even though a GPU is not really a CPU, right?) exist is so that one does not need to know the microarchitecture to use the damn hardware!
This kind of crap has to stop.
That's still a fallacious argument. Firefox is no different from all other browsers in this regard. The only browser which deserves special mention is IE, since it is part of the mechanism of the attack.
By visiting a malicious site with Firefox, a user can infect their install of Internet Explorer.... VitalSecurity's report points out that this vulnerability can (only) affect Windows users who use Sun's Java Runtime Environment.
So, the attack happens through Sun's JVM, affects IE, and consequently has nothing to do with Firefox, which was inserted into the article for maximum troll capability.
It sounds like something I might want to listen to.
Um... oops?
I don't know. I saw "WIPO," and since I've obviously been bitching about them recently, it's the first thing that came to mind when I read this story.
Allow me to pimp my own post .
I'd also like to follow-up on a point about the duration of copyright. I understand now why having copyright last for at least the duration of the author's life is important: people who produce art (or content, or however you want to look at it) may have dependants to support. One thing we who seek the freedom of culture often overlook is that many artists often expect to make a living and/or professional careers out of what they do.
Without the support of the artist-type of person, we will never achieve much of what we want. So, we are either going to have to change their attitudes about making a living off of art, or we are going to have to make some compromises.
In the evaluation of traditional Western art, the creator has always been valued over the performer.
(Hint: they're both artists.)
One thing that all of this technology does is to definitely tip the scales somewhat back toward the performer---or rather, it enhances the importance of the performance aspect. Writing a song is higher art, I think, than performing a song (and being a "recording artist" is way down in the pits), but being able to do both yourself is even better.
Yeah, I know. It's not called that any more.
Besides, easter eggs are fun.