"Congratulations. Sounds to me like you wanted to use all the FoSS tools to create a non-Open product (let alone Free.) We don't need ya! Don't let the door hit your ass on the way out, kthx."
It's this kind of mentality that truly is the hindrance to the adoption of OSS.
First off, I totally disagree with these kinds of laws. But if they're going to have them, they should have a clause that the gathered evidence can only be used to convict for treason/terrorism. That would lessen the likelihood of abuse (well, we happened to hear about a drug deal going down, so...)
Of course, with the bad precendent set, the scope will expand anyway:(
In the United States, the Democrats, for the most part, are firmly against checking ID when voting, with the reasoning that it discriminates against those without ID. Unfortunately, that destroys the integrity of the voting process.
Agreed, but this article is in the context of phishing scams. I would argue that there's a difference between someone impersonating an individual to the bank (like the example you gave), and impersonating the bank to the individual (phishing). In the case of you describe, the individual, is being impersonated, and the bank is the one involved in the transaction. I would agree that they need superior authentication systems in that case. In the case of phishing, however, the bank, through no fault of theirs, is being impersonated. A gullible individual will likely provide any information required for a bank transfer, including the information to change the whitelist. The same gullible individual would likely not even set up such a whitelist. Since the bank isn't a party to any of this communication, I think that the individual, rather than the bank, should be held accountable in this scenario.
And, as usual, the informed people will end up subsidizing the ignorant. This is not a security issue, so the banks can't improve it. The banks will have to pay, either directly, or through insurance premiums. This gets passed on to the consumer.
Why in the world should the banks be liable for someone impersonating them? Should you get sued for a scam artist impersonating you?
Say you were making $5 million a year. What would be your incentive to make any more under your system? Nothing at all. At that point, all the rich people, instead of running your large businesses, go and play golf all day. Then the universal healthcare is up !@$# creek, because there's no money to pay for it.
Hell, I don't feel like working very much on freelance projects because of the 50% tax rate (income+state income+ 15% social security/medicare). Nobody with any sense would work at a 90% tax rate.
They have some DRM scheme, probably WMA, on these files - the article mentions that people will need to visit the site once a month to maintain access to their downloads. That means that this won't work on an iPod, which means that some 80% of the market is already excluded. At whom exactly is this targeted?
Wow. Finally a logical response, so of course it was modded flamebait on Slashdot.
Moderators: How the hell can you call a post that says that defying court orders and laws is a bad idea flamebait? This whole thread is absurd, but I hope more dumbasses try to defy court orders based upon Slashdot advice. They're going to be grounded for a long time afterwards.
A scientific instrument or computer that controls them with proprietary data should not be connected to the internet. Period. Place a second machine with internet access in the same room, and users can transfer the data they need, if necessary, using some form of media/external drive.
If consumers really wanted a high density, DRMless, data storage medium, movie format, they'd get it. But consumers are ignorant, and really don't care. There's no force involved here.
But we currently _use_ the 300 million tons of corn - mostly not for fuel. To scale 300 million to 1.5 billion is not a simple ramp up - that's a decimation of our food supply. Isn't it better to sell the food we grow and use it to buy oil (or natural gas, uranium, etc.), feeding people in the process?
Your algorithm developers will curse you if you stop the use of MATLAB. I use it every day in a mostly Fortran/C shop, and I can get work done in a small fraction of the time it takes the fortran folks. In one case it took me 35 lines of code to do what would take hundreds of lines in fortran.
If I need fast runtime, I port it after I've done the development. Writing it twice in this manner is still _far_ quicker than writing it in C or C++ the first time. Ignore the slashdotters who think MATLAB is bad because it's proprietary - I can assure you that they've never used it in a production environment, and don't understand that time == money.
How many big car companies can sell small roadsters for $80k? Not very many. The car has range because it's light and impractical. This won't scale into a typical sedan.
internet gambling does not allow the government to take their cut and is therefore in direct competition with them. Expect many more such crackdowns soon.
There will be an image quality degradation since it's the decompressed stream that is being copied, and it will have to be recompressed to get it back to a size that will fit on HD-DVD/Blu-Ray. Therefore, this isn't equivalent to a direct copy of the compressed data stream.
If they wanted eye candy they would have switched to a Mac a long time ago. If they wanted speed or efficiency they would have switched to anything but Windows a long time ago. The real answer is that people don't consider anything but Windows because they don't want to, and they don't want to consider anything besides Windows due to ignorance, usually.
There's a difference between understanding something and knowing the jargon. He showed not a lack of understanding, but not using jargon correctly. On the contrary, I think he understood the _concept_, which is why he even used the term "tube", which, according to the thesaurus, is a synonym for pipe.
People don't want to accept that "good looks" is not often consistent with fuel economy. The EV1 had, AFAIK, the lowest drag coefficient of any production car built - 0.19. That's why it had an even marginally usable range. It was lightweight, without the usual crap in everyday cars. It's not a conspiracy - what your average person who doesn't understand physics wants is not efficient. Period.
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"Congratulations. Sounds to me like you wanted to use all the FoSS tools to create a non-Open product (let alone Free.) We don't need ya! Don't let the door hit your ass on the way out, kthx."
It's this kind of mentality that truly is the hindrance to the adoption of OSS.
I'd rather replace my transmission than me, when my brakes overheat and I crash at full speed.
First off, I totally disagree with these kinds of laws. But if they're going to have them, they should have a clause that the gathered evidence can only be used to convict for treason/terrorism. That would lessen the likelihood of abuse (well, we happened to hear about a drug deal going down, so...) Of course, with the bad precendent set, the scope will expand anyway :(
No - The TDI Jetta isn't even available for sale in California due to emissions. Do you see what we're up against here in CA?
In the United States, the Democrats, for the most part, are firmly against checking ID when voting, with the reasoning that it discriminates against those without ID. Unfortunately, that destroys the integrity of the voting process.
Agreed, but this article is in the context of phishing scams. I would argue that there's a difference between someone impersonating an individual to the bank (like the example you gave), and impersonating the bank to the individual (phishing). In the case of you describe, the individual, is being impersonated, and the bank is the one involved in the transaction. I would agree that they need superior authentication systems in that case. In the case of phishing, however, the bank, through no fault of theirs, is being impersonated. A gullible individual will likely provide any information required for a bank transfer, including the information to change the whitelist. The same gullible individual would likely not even set up such a whitelist. Since the bank isn't a party to any of this communication, I think that the individual, rather than the bank, should be held accountable in this scenario.
And, as usual, the informed people will end up subsidizing the ignorant. This is not a security issue, so the banks can't improve it. The banks will have to pay, either directly, or through insurance premiums. This gets passed on to the consumer. Why in the world should the banks be liable for someone impersonating them? Should you get sued for a scam artist impersonating you?
AMP is a massive electrical connector company owned by Tyco. http://www.amp.com/
Hybrid SACDs are actually single sided, but have two different layers. I'd expect Sony could do the same for Blu-Ray.
Say you were making $5 million a year. What would be your incentive to make any more under your system? Nothing at all. At that point, all the rich people, instead of running your large businesses, go and play golf all day. Then the universal healthcare is up !@$# creek, because there's no money to pay for it. Hell, I don't feel like working very much on freelance projects because of the 50% tax rate (income+state income+ 15% social security/medicare). Nobody with any sense would work at a 90% tax rate.
They have some DRM scheme, probably WMA, on these files - the article mentions that people will need to visit the site once a month to maintain access to their downloads. That means that this won't work on an iPod, which means that some 80% of the market is already excluded. At whom exactly is this targeted?
Wow. Finally a logical response, so of course it was modded flamebait on Slashdot. Moderators: How the hell can you call a post that says that defying court orders and laws is a bad idea flamebait? This whole thread is absurd, but I hope more dumbasses try to defy court orders based upon Slashdot advice. They're going to be grounded for a long time afterwards.
A scientific instrument or computer that controls them with proprietary data should not be connected to the internet. Period. Place a second machine with internet access in the same room, and users can transfer the data they need, if necessary, using some form of media/external drive.
If consumers really wanted a high density, DRMless, data storage medium, movie format, they'd get it. But consumers are ignorant, and really don't care. There's no force involved here.
But we currently _use_ the 300 million tons of corn - mostly not for fuel. To scale 300 million to 1.5 billion is not a simple ramp up - that's a decimation of our food supply. Isn't it better to sell the food we grow and use it to buy oil (or natural gas, uranium, etc.), feeding people in the process?
Check out I bonds: http://www.treasurydirect.gov/indiv/products/ibond s_glance.htm
They guarantee a rate of return above the inflation rate, currently ~2.5% above inflation. It's not risky, and liquid in an emergency.
Your algorithm developers will curse you if you stop the use of MATLAB. I use it every day in a mostly Fortran/C shop, and I can get work done in a small fraction of the time it takes the fortran folks. In one case it took me 35 lines of code to do what would take hundreds of lines in fortran. If I need fast runtime, I port it after I've done the development. Writing it twice in this manner is still _far_ quicker than writing it in C or C++ the first time. Ignore the slashdotters who think MATLAB is bad because it's proprietary - I can assure you that they've never used it in a production environment, and don't understand that time == money.
You can't use the Dirty Harry method.
How many big car companies can sell small roadsters for $80k? Not very many. The car has range because it's light and impractical. This won't scale into a typical sedan.
internet gambling does not allow the government to take their cut and is therefore in direct competition with them. Expect many more such crackdowns soon.
There will be an image quality degradation since it's the decompressed stream that is being copied, and it will have to be recompressed to get it back to a size that will fit on HD-DVD/Blu-Ray. Therefore, this isn't equivalent to a direct copy of the compressed data stream.
If they wanted eye candy they would have switched to a Mac a long time ago. If they wanted speed or efficiency they would have switched to anything but Windows a long time ago. The real answer is that people don't consider anything but Windows because they don't want to, and they don't want to consider anything besides Windows due to ignorance, usually.
So I'll get a video card instead.
There's a difference between understanding something and knowing the jargon. He showed not a lack of understanding, but not using jargon correctly. On the contrary, I think he understood the _concept_, which is why he even used the term "tube", which, according to the thesaurus, is a synonym for pipe.
People don't want to accept that "good looks" is not often consistent with fuel economy. The EV1 had, AFAIK, the lowest drag coefficient of any production car built - 0.19. That's why it had an even marginally usable range. It was lightweight, without the usual crap in everyday cars. It's not a conspiracy - what your average person who doesn't understand physics wants is not efficient. Period.