Don't forget farming manuals! There was a whole genre of these. Hesiod's Works and Days is the oldest in the Greek corpus, from about 750 BC. There were many others. Vergil's Georgics (1st century BC) is one of the most renowned - a farming manual with political overtones in four books of verse, by the most renowned Roman poet of his day.
A friend of mine once pointed out that the book of Ezekiel, where he describes his vision of "wheels within wheels", reads like a techie's report. Coming from a society powered by muscle, Ezekiel spends a lot of his text talking about the way the fiery creatures of his vision are harnessed, and reporting how well the harness worked.
Nope. "agendum" in Latin means "a thing to be done", the gerundive form of the verb "ago" (do, act). "agenda" is the neuter plural "things to be done". Each item on your agenda is an agendum...in Latin.
Definitely not "viri". That means "men" - the nominative plural of "vir" (man), a 2nd declension noun. Not "viruses" in Latin either, that's 3rd declension and besides it would almost certainly be "vires". The Latin word "virus" (stink, swamp, poison) OTOH is 4th declension. The plural would be spelled "virus" but pronounced with the "u" stretched out (like "viruuus") if there was a plural - but the surviving Latin literature does not contain a single instance of "virus" in the plural, so it might have been a defective noun (not existing in the plural), or we might just be unlucky. No way to tell now.
Anyway, it's pretentious to use a Latin plural when speaking English, especially when the English meaning has precious little to do with the Latin meaning.
At first blush I was in favour of this but now I realize it would be catastrophic. SCO would simply reply in kind, forcing the takedown of every U.S. site for downloading Linux - and every link to an overseas site. This is in keeping with their practise of responding to every legal accusation with the same accusation reversed.
Remember, the DMCA only requires that you have a belief that your copyright is being infringed, not a reasonable belief. One court has already ruled that the accuser doesn't have to do any research at all (like viewing the website) to force a takedown - you can get a site taken down because voices from Mars told you it is violating your copyright.
So do not issue a takedown against SCO, no matter how well justified it would be - it would start the legal equivalent of nuclear war!
From the VIA press release touting the Eden-N:
"Unlike software RNGs or existing multi-chip solutions, the PadLock RNGs utilize electrical noise on the CPU to generate market-leading quantities of high quality entropy for use in the creation of security keys. The entropy is stored in a collection buffer where it can be accessed directly via a dedicated x86 instruction set without the use of vulnerable software drivers."
Best new technology of 2003!
The public library here in Ottawa advertises that they have CDs and DVDs to lend out. They even have an on-line catalogue. They are perfectly happy for people to borrow them, take them home, and copy them. None of this is illegal in Canada. How is putting the CD or DVD online legally any different?
In particular, lack of authentication is a strength of SMTP, just as it is with IP. It means, for example, that I can implement my own authentication (or plug in PGP or whatever), and don't have to use the mail-transfer layer's after it turns out to have a serious hole that lets the spammers and con-men through.
Here is a simple solution that maintains complete compatability both with existing Mail Transfer Agents and with email clients.
The ISP's Mail Transfer Agent parses the incoming To: field into name, stamp, and domain. For example if I am a customer of example.net, you would send email to me with the address:
gdeinsta@2ikaw97up5w.example.net
It compares the stamp ("2ikaw97up5w") against a list of stamps that I have issued (or rather that the ISP has issued for me). The stamp is on the list so it accepts the mail. It doesn't matter where you send it from, your office account or home account or an IM gateway - you know the stamp so you can send me mail. But anytime I want to I can cancel the stamp. I have issued each of my correspondents a different stamp.
What about my old college buddy Joe, with whom I lost touch? He sends mail to
gdeinsta@example.net
and receives a reply directing him to a web site where he can buy a stamp for a buck - but to make this socially acceptable, the money goes to a registered charity of my choice. And I can cancel his stamp too.
Maybe I even sign up for direct mail advertising because I know that the advertiser is paying a fee that goes to charity. And the advertiser likes it because I have filled out a questionnaire about my interests and demographics - so it is targeted and agreed-to advertising, which is far more effective than spam.
As a bonus, if your machine is infected by a virus that sends email with a spoofed From: field, I can tell from the stamp where it really came from. In fact I have weak authentication without the fuss and expense of certificates (how many people use the things?) and without relying on a few high-value secrets that are worthwhile discovering. Instead there are a whole lot of low-value secrets.
I am happy, you are happy, Joe is happy, the legitimate advertiser is happy, the charities are happy. Low-life spammers starve to death and virus writers are slightly inconvenienced. Above all, the scheme can be implemented by example.net for their own customers without having to wait for anyone else to do anything.
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Don't forget farming manuals! There was a whole genre of these. Hesiod's Works and Days is the oldest in the Greek corpus, from about 750 BC. There were many others. Vergil's Georgics (1st century BC) is one of the most renowned - a farming manual with political overtones in four books of verse, by the most renowned Roman poet of his day.
A friend of mine once pointed out that the book of Ezekiel, where he describes his vision of "wheels within wheels", reads like a techie's report. Coming from a society powered by muscle, Ezekiel spends a lot of his text talking about the way the fiery creatures of his vision are harnessed, and reporting how well the harness worked.
Nope. "agendum" in Latin means "a thing to be done", the gerundive form of the verb "ago" (do, act). "agenda" is the neuter plural "things to be done". Each item on your agenda is an agendum ...in Latin.
Definitely not "viri". That means "men" - the nominative plural of "vir" (man), a 2nd declension noun. Not "viruses" in Latin either, that's 3rd declension and besides it would almost certainly be "vires". The Latin word "virus" (stink, swamp, poison) OTOH is 4th declension. The plural would be spelled "virus" but pronounced with the "u" stretched out (like "viruuus") if there was a plural - but the surviving Latin literature does not contain a single instance of "virus" in the plural, so it might have been a defective noun (not existing in the plural), or we might just be unlucky. No way to tell now.
Anyway, it's pretentious to use a Latin plural when speaking English, especially when the English meaning has precious little to do with the Latin meaning.
At first blush I was in favour of this but now I realize it would be catastrophic. SCO would simply reply in kind, forcing the takedown of every U.S. site for downloading Linux - and every link to an overseas site. This is in keeping with their practise of responding to every legal accusation with the same accusation reversed.
Remember, the DMCA only requires that you have a belief that your copyright is being infringed, not a reasonable belief. One court has already ruled that the accuser doesn't have to do any research at all (like viewing the website) to force a takedown - you can get a site taken down because voices from Mars told you it is violating your copyright.
So do not issue a takedown against SCO, no matter how well justified it would be - it would start the legal equivalent of nuclear war!
From the VIA press release touting the Eden-N: "Unlike software RNGs or existing multi-chip solutions, the PadLock RNGs utilize electrical noise on the CPU to generate market-leading quantities of high quality entropy for use in the creation of security keys. The entropy is stored in a collection buffer where it can be accessed directly via a dedicated x86 instruction set without the use of vulnerable software drivers." Best new technology of 2003!
The public library here in Ottawa advertises that they have CDs and DVDs to lend out. They even have an on-line catalogue. They are perfectly happy for people to borrow them, take them home, and copy them. None of this is illegal in Canada. How is putting the CD or DVD online legally any different?
There is a type of telegraph key called a "bug". Sounds like the original meaning was a loose connection, opening and closing like a telegraph key.
In particular, lack of authentication is a strength of SMTP, just as it is with IP. It means, for example, that I can implement my own authentication (or plug in PGP or whatever), and don't have to use the mail-transfer layer's after it turns out to have a serious hole that lets the spammers and con-men through.
Here is a simple solution that maintains complete compatability both with existing Mail Transfer Agents and with email clients.
The ISP's Mail Transfer Agent parses the incoming To: field into name, stamp, and domain. For example if I am a customer of example.net, you would send email to me with the address:
gdeinsta@2ikaw97up5w.example.net
It compares the stamp ("2ikaw97up5w") against a list of stamps that I have issued (or rather that the ISP has issued for me). The stamp is on the list so it accepts the mail. It doesn't matter where you send it from, your office account or home account or an IM gateway - you know the stamp so you can send me mail. But anytime I want to I can cancel the stamp. I have issued each of my correspondents a different stamp.
What about my old college buddy Joe, with whom I lost touch? He sends mail to
gdeinsta@example.net
and receives a reply directing him to a web site where he can buy a stamp for a buck - but to make this socially acceptable, the money goes to a registered charity of my choice. And I can cancel his stamp too.
Maybe I even sign up for direct mail advertising because I know that the advertiser is paying a fee that goes to charity. And the advertiser likes it because I have filled out a questionnaire about my interests and demographics - so it is targeted and agreed-to advertising, which is far more effective than spam.
As a bonus, if your machine is infected by a virus that sends email with a spoofed From: field, I can tell from the stamp where it really came from. In fact I have weak authentication without the fuss and expense of certificates (how many people use the things?) and without relying on a few high-value secrets that are worthwhile discovering. Instead there are a whole lot of low-value secrets.
I am happy, you are happy, Joe is happy, the legitimate advertiser is happy, the charities are happy. Low-life spammers starve to death and virus writers are slightly inconvenienced. Above all, the scheme can be implemented by example.net for their own customers without having to wait for anyone else to do anything.